A letter from the past forces a disgraced bureaucrat to confront his future Tangier tells two parallel stories: one, a mystery, & the other a spy story set fifty years apart & told in a series of alternating sections. In the first, we follow Christopher Chaffee, a disgraced Washington power broker whose father, a French diplomat, died in a Vichy prison in 1944 -- or so he had always believed until a letter, received decades after it was posted, upends his life. Soon he is reluctantly inspecting the corkscrew of his own life as he searches the narrow lanes & twisted souls of Tangiers ancient medina in search of the father he never knew. The second is a tale of espionage & betrayal, set in Morocco during WWII. Rene Laurent, Christophers father, struggles to maintain his integrity -- & his life -- in the snake pit of wartime Tangier. The stories slowly intertwine as Christopher unravels the mystery of his fathers fate, & Laurent becomes trapped in a web of lies & corruption, & caught up, too, in the arms of a woman he knows he shouldnt trust. Ultimately, this is the story of fathers & sons, the alienation of being a stranger in a strange l&, the seductive face of betrayal &, finally, the lengths well go to for redemption. ...

An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa, just nine miles across the Strait of Gibraltar from Europe & overlooking both the Mediterranean & the Atlantic, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape, & the Interzone, as William Burroughs called it, has attracted spies, outlaws, outcasts & writers for centuries
- men & women working out at the edge of literary forms, breaking through artistic borders. This outlaw originality is what most astonishes when encountering the literary history of Tangier for the first time. Particularly in the past century, the results were some of the most incendiary & influential books of our time, the most prominent being Burroughs` Naked Lunch & Paul Bowles` The Sheltering Sky. The list of ”edge” writers who were drawn to Tangier is long, among them Ibn Battuta, Samuel Pepys, Alexandre Dumas, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Walter Harris, Jean Genet, Paul & Jane Bowles, Tennessee Williams, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Patricia Highsmith, Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Allen Ginsberg, Alfred Chester, Joe Orton, & Mohamed Choukri.
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”A dream concealed in stone...sky supersonic, orgone blue, warm wind... Such beauty, but more than that, it`s like the dream is breaking through.` William Burroughs No city in the world has quite the exotic allure of Tangier. From the 17th century, it has been a place on the edge, beyond the normal disciplines of government, a city of refuge & excitements where sex is cheap, drugs are plentiful & where the outcasts of the world can breathe easily. The golden years of Tangier began after World War I & barely survived World War II. Among those who sought sanctuary in or inspiration from this legendary city were Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Paul & Jane Bowles, Ronnie Kray, the unhappy Woolworth heiress, Barbara Hutton, Tennessee Williams, Joe Orton, Cecil Beaton & Truman Capote. It is this `last resort of the living dead, alive but not madly kicking` which Iain Finlayson explores in his witty, enthralling book. ...

Illustrator & papercutter, Jessica Palmer, has created 75 pages of enchanting h&-drawn pictures for you to colour & lose yourself in. The images all have a magical woodland theme, & each one

Includes:: a a `hidden jewel`, intricately worked into the design, which will include rings, brooches, pendants, chains, bracelets & earrings featuring insects, animals & leafy patterns. The book will include designs that fit on a single page as well as those that extend across a double-page spread. Some of the designs will fill the entire page & others will sit within it. Others will have space left for the reader to extend the design themselves. High quality paper means that there will be no show-through.

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In Tangled Travels, you`ll find fifty-two fantastic drawings of worldwide cities & landmarks, created Jane Monk. Colour your way through Paris, Venice, London, New York City & more. Half of the drawings are complete & ready to colour. Half of them await your creativity & imagination to bring each destination to life. ...

From tango's birthplace in Buenos Aires to its adoptive homes of Athens, Lisbon, Helsinki & other cities, Tango Around the World weaves together passion, style & elegance to create a rich musical tapestry that features traditional tango alongside contemporary fusions. The elegant style & restrained passion of tango has made it one of the most recognized & popular forms of music & dance around the world. Its romantic allure has earned it such a wide following that there are now tango clubs from Seattle to Sydney. Over the past decade, DJs & contemporary musicians have taken tango in new directions with electronic-based compositions known as new tango. Putumayo has traveled the globe to find many of the best tango & tango-influenced songs the world has to offer. CD Track listing:1 Ousmane Tour ...

From tango`s birthplace in Buenos Aires to its adoptive homes of Athens, Lisbon, Helsinki & other cities, ” Tango Around the World” weaves together passion, style & elegance to create a rich musical tapestry that features traditional tango alongside contemporary fusions. The elegant style & restrained passion of tango has made it one of the most recognized & popular forms of music & dance around the world. Its romantic allure has earned it such a wide following that there are now tango clubs from Seattle to Sydney. Over the past decade, DJs & contemporary musicians have taken tango in new directions with electronic-based compositions known as ”new tango.” Putumayo has traveled the globe to find many of the best tango & tango-influenced songs the world has to offer. CD Track listing:1 Ousmane Touré, ` Dimba` (Senegal) 2 M.A. Numminen & Sanna Pietiäinen, ` Kangastus` (Finland) 3 Melingo with Florencia Bonadeo, ` Leonel el Feo` (Argentina) 4 Fortuna, ` Tango Idishe` (Brazil) 5 Federico Aubele, ` Pena` (Argentina) 6 Electrocutango, ` Felino` (Norway) 7 Alexis Kalofolias & Thanos Amorginos, ` Gia Ligo` (Greece) 8 Earth Wheel Sky B&, ` Gipsy Tango` (Serbia) 9 Liana, ` Estrela da Tarde` (Portugal) 10 Cáceres with Ariel Prat, ` José Mármol y Tarija` (Argentina) 11 Hugo Díaz, ` Mi Buenos Aires Querido` (Argentina) About this series: Putumayo World Music was established to introduce people to the music of the world`s cultures. The label grew out of Putumayo clothing company, founded by Dan Storper in 1975 & sold in 1997. Co-founder Michael Kraus joined Storper to help launch Putumayo World Music in 1993. Since then the label has become known primarily for its upbeat & melodic compilations of great international music characterized by the company`s motto: “guaranteed to make you feel good!” ...

Where to tango, when to tango, how to tango, or as the publishers put it on the cover of this Tango Buenos Aires plan: 10 must sites, 101 tango places, 20 milongas, 3 pure tango days, & essential discography from Gardel to Piazzolla. The street plan of the city, one half of one side of this map, is cross-referenced with colour-coded markers to the extensive information provided in the surrounding panels: places to visit, museums & academies, bars & restaurants, entertainment, shopping & milongas. The whole of the reverse side is devoted to providing tourist information: three itineraries for Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday breakfast to late night tango days, advice on choosing the right milonga meeting & the etiquette to follow, as well as the history of tango music & discography. Viva el tango!

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The 1:50, 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50, 000 topographic map sheets. ...

The 1:50 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50 000 topographic map sheets. ...