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Tangier: Facets of a Mediterranean Intersection

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Tangier is a state of mind. It perches on the top tip of Africa, its soul in the Maghreb, its eyes set on Europe, for centuries a cultural crossroads. Four photographers encounter differing facets of an ever-moving city, capturing moments in the medina, the seaside forests, in stark new suburbs. They tell the story of a city steeped in the past, tossed by change, and reaching uncertainly for the future, but most of all of a city that somehow, in a way you can never quite define, gets a hold of you.

114 pages, Hardcover

Published March 10, 2020

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Rodney Bolt

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Rodney Bolt was born in South Africa. He studied at Rhodes University and wrote the play Gandhi: Act Too, which won the 1980 Durban Critic's Circle Play of the Year award. That same year he won a scholarship to Cambridge and read English at Corpus Christi. He has twice won Travel Writer of the Year awards in Germany and is the author of History Play, an invented biography of Christopher Marlowe (HarperCollins, 2004) and The Librettist of Venice, a biography of Lorenzo Da Ponte (Bloomsbury, 2006), which was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He lives in Amsterdam.

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November 30, 2020
De auteur neemt je in dit boek samen met de fotografen mee naar Tanger (Tangier). Begeleid door de prachtige foto’s beleef je deze stad.

“Dit boek bevat een weergave van de stad, van de kronkelige steegjes in de medina, de boulevards met het voorbijrazende verkeer, de aan het bos grenzende kust tot het door neon verlichte feestlandschap: de vervallen muren en de fonkelnieuwe gebouwen, de luidruchtige markten en de lange stadsstranden (Vogue noemt Tanger ‘een van ‘s werelds beste strandsteden’), het eten, de muziek, de bruisende openbare plekken met de spelende kinderen en de grote meutes katten, haar verleden en haar huidige transformaties.”

Bovenstaande is een klein stukje uit dit boek, maar het laat de hartstocht zien waarmee het verhaal is geschreven.
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