Title: In Barbary : Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and the Sahara /
Authors: Powell, E. Alexander 1879-
Publisher: Century,
Year: 1926
Subjects: Africa, North Description and travel.; Tunisia Description and travel.; Algeria Description and travel.; Morocco Description and travel.; Africa, North Social life and customs.; Africa, North History
Abstract: Presents narratives of the author's adventures and travels in North Africa in late 19th century and early 20th century.
Contents: 1. I never see a map but I'm away -- 2. The gate to Barbary -- 3. The factory of strange odors -- 4. Mid pleasures and palaces -- 5. Carthago Deleta Est -- 6. Ashes of empire -- 7. To Kairouan the holy -- 8. Troglodytes and lotus-easters -- 9. Across the shats to the sandy sea -- 10. The conquest of the sahara -- 11. The last home of mystery -- 12. Down to the land of the Mozabites -- 13. Biskra, demi-mondaine of the desert -- 14. Frontiers of Rome -- 15. The Grand Kabylia -- 16. The capital of the corsairs -- 17. Following the pirate coast -- 18. The foreign legion -- 19. The struggle for power in the farthest west -- 20. From a Fasi housetop -- 21. In the shadow of the Sherrefian umbrella -- 22. South to the forbidden Sus.