The 2021 Annual General Meeting – Recommended Reading

The photo at the top of this page shows Le Jardin Secret in Marrakesh which we will visit during our AGM tour (Photo: Le Jardin Secret)

• AGM Programme
• Optional Pre and Post AGM tours

Here is a selection of books which Members attending the 2021 AGM may find of interest, chosen by Angela Durnford.

Gardens

• The Art of the Islamic Garden, Emma Clark. Easy-to-read and a great introduction.
• Islamic Gardens and Landscapes, D Fairchild Ruggles. A more intellectual and detailed treatment of the subject.
• Gardens of Marrakesh, Angelica Gray. Angelica has consulted on the AGM tour program.
• Paradise Gardens, Monty Don. A lavish coffee table book to accompany the BBC TV series.

Background Reading

• In Morocco, Edith Wharton. An account of her travels in Morocco in 1917, including her first sight of Marrakesh.
• Hideous Kinky, Emma Freud. A semi-autobiographical account of 1960s hippy trail Marrakesh.
• Lords of the Atlas, Gavin Maxwell. A classic account of the ruthless House of Glaoua – good background to the politics and palaces of 1893-1956.
• Murder in Marrakesh: Emile Mauchamp and the French Colonial Adventure, Jonathan G Katz. An interesting account of cultural clash in the years of the French Protectorate.
• Journal of a tour in Marocco and the Great Atlas, John Dalton Hooker and John Ball. An account of a botanical and geological tour in 1871 led by the famous botanist at a time when Morocco was still little explored.

 

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