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Summary: An awful book that you should avoid!
Review: ...as someone who has spent nearly a decade in Morocco let me tell you, "don't buy this book"! It is filled with trivia and several false statements. For instance, on page 247 the author states that 'until recently, additional income was provided by a large naval and military base [Kenitra], shared with the US, but the Americans left after the Gulf War...' Well, this is absolutely not true. The Kenitra Base was closed in 1978 and the last naval activity there was the taking of the [then Port-Lyautey] airfield by US forces during Operation Torch in WWII. This, in turn, is followed by a derogatory comment about "a rather sad array of bars, pizza joints, and discos [that] struggle along in their wake" which indicates that the author of this section not only failed to research his subject... Therefore, if the authors didn't even take the time to verify these facts then just how reliable can you expect the rest of the book to be?
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Summary: Unfulfilling
Review: As we loaded our backpacks hours before our jet departed Vancouver, my partner and I debated about whether to bring Lonely Planet's Morocco guidebook, or the Rough Guide. In the end, mostly due to weight considerations, we left the Rough Guide at home. I would advise any first-time traveller to Morocco to do the same. It's a tired, rambling, incomplete guide, full of inconsequential information and generic descriptions. Hotel prices, strangely, are not listed. There is scant reference to Morocco's massive social ills. And there are too many references to writer Paul Bowles, who, I admit, is the be-all-and-end-all of western Moroccan ex-pats. But enough about him, already. Lonely Planet gets all the promotion it needs from other reviewers, so I was hesitant in writing this review. But for those looking for a more concise, insider view of Morocco, LP's the way to go.
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Summary: Great for the armchair traveler
Review: I am not actually planning to visit Morocco, but I like /thinking/ about visiting Morocco. I found this guide literate and insightful.
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Summary: Good for maps only
Review: Photocopy the city center maps from the Rough Guide and carry the Lonely Planet Morocco. It has better listings for everything else.
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Summary: evarything about morocco is excellent
Review: Thanks for this direct informations about morocco. A lot of people especially in the usa were carrying such a wrong image about morocco but now I am certain that most of them start to change this image .I have read one of the books that you have about morocco and I was really fascinated by the way the author describes people, cities, geography....prejudices never works against reality and reality is achieved only by a journey to the place to see what's going on. MOROCCO IS A MAGICAL COUNTRY as the author says and I agree with him definitely. you are making a great job. Keep on .
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