The Italian writer Edmondo De Amicis rode with his country’s embassy from Tangier to the sultan’s court at Fez, camping each night in the open. He paints the caravan’s progress through villages and river camps, the stifling heat, the crowds and markets and the walled city of Fez itself with a painter’s eye and a novelist’s curiosity.
Among the most vivid nineteenth-century travel books on North Africa, by the author of Heart. Download the free EPUB.