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Cinnamon City

by Miranda Innes
RM33.13 MYR
Cinnamon City
Cinnamon City

Marrakech: romantic restoration, evocative cultural fusion.

If you've ever longed to be transported to a world where the exotic and the familiar blend into a thrilling new reality, "Cinnamon City" is your ticket. Miranda Innes immerses you in the vibrant hues and heady scents of Marrakech, capturing the city's chaotic charm as she and her partner navigate the restoration of a riad. It's travel writing at its most intimate, filled with the vividness of personal experience and a deep affection for a place that is both challenging and enchanting.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Cinnamon City

by Miranda Innes
RM33.13 MYR
ISBN: 9780552772860
Authors: Miranda Innes
Publisher: Black Swan
Date of Publication: 2006-01-09
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, Travel
Related Topics: Memoir, Biography, Travelogue
Goodreads rating: 3.1
(rated by 162 readers)

Description

Want to escape to a place where the sun always shines? Where passionate music, magic potions and drama of Africa are cooled by the genius of Arabic culture? Miranda Innes and her partner were lured into buying a beautiful long-neglected riad in the heart of the magical pink-walled city of Marrakech. Only after they'd begun their restoration work did they find that nothing in this place of smoke and mirrors was quite what it seemed. With her talent for lyrical and evocative descriptions of swirling colours, flavours and aromas, Miranda Innes takes you beyond the tourist track, behind the bolted doors and deep inside the romance that is Marrakech.
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Marrakech: romantic restoration, evocative cultural fusion.

If you've ever longed to be transported to a world where the exotic and the familiar blend into a thrilling new reality, "Cinnamon City" is your ticket. Miranda Innes immerses you in the vibrant hues and heady scents of Marrakech, capturing the city's chaotic charm as she and her partner navigate the restoration of a riad. It's travel writing at its most intimate, filled with the vividness of personal experience and a deep affection for a place that is both challenging and enchanting.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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