Table of Contents
- Introduction: Travels in Bric-a-Brac
- London: Angels
- Brussels: Jeu de Balle
- Paris: Les Puces
- Rochefort: On the Pierre Loti Trail
- Naples: Something about Walls
- Budapest: Between the Pages
- Istanbul: The Grand Bazaar
- Damascus:
- Aleppo: A Serendipitous Find
- Aswan: Three Dollars a Day
- Marrakech: The Water Sellers
- Fez el-Djedid: A Portable Arabic Typewriter
- Tangier: The Forbes Museum
- Shanghai: Shopping on a Grand Scale; The Great World
- Stanley: Arrivals
- Los Angeles: A Natural History Boutique
- Portland: The Measure of the Criminal
- Vancouver: Dr Wilsone's Fossils; The Magnifying Glass; A Few Words to Scavengers
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index
On the Pierre Loti Trail
I no longer remember when I first crossed paths with the French author Pierre Loti, but once I made his acquaintance, I knew I would never let him out of my sight. Loti was a man committed to his obsessions: traveling, writing, marrying temporarily, and re-creating the exotic, whether from the past or from foreign lands. Although he lived until 1923, he remained firmly locked in the nineteenth century ...
A Portable Arabic Typewriter
When I revisited Morocco in 1994, I had been working on The Tattooed Map, an illustrated novel of a journey through that country. The manuscript was nearly finished and was to go to editing shortly after my return; on this last trip I would take more photographs and confirm some details ... Among the places I went back to was Fez, one of the most remarkable cities in North Africa ...
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