Morocco the Piquant, or Life in Sunset Land
1914; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 94; Issue: 2340 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1038/094003a0
ISSN1476-4687
Autores Tópico(s)Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
ResumoMR. HOLT, who seems to have held for about six years the post of American vice- and deputyconsul-general at Tangier, enjoyed facilities of exploring the interior of Morocco denied to European diplomatists who exercise a more active and less disinterested influence on the affairs of that distracted country. The note of his book is the strange conflict of Oriental and Western culture so close to Europe. He gives in nave fashion and with a breezy style a sketch of the cosmopolitan population of Tangier, where he is reminded everywhere of the Arabian Nights. He was able to visit that strange Alsatia within ten miles of Tangier, held by the turbulent Anghera he interviewed the bandit Raisuli, whom the Spaniards, it is said, are now ready to take into their service, at his refuge Arzila.
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