A Handful of Honey: Away to the Palm Groves of Morocco and Algeria

✍ Scribed by Hawes, Annie

• Book ID: 109502341
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 337 KB
• Series: Handful of Honey 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780330464994

✦ Synopsis

Aiming to track down a small oasis town deep in the Sahara, some of whose generous inhabitants came to her rescue on a black day in her adolescence, Annie Hawes leaves her home in the olive groves of Italy and sets off along the south coast of the Mediterranean.

Travelling through Morocco and Algeria she eats pigeon pie with a family of cannabis farmers, and learns about the habits of djinns; she encounters citizens whose protest against the tyrannical King Hassan takes the form of attaching colanders to their television aerials - a practice he soon outlaws - and comes across a stone-age method of making olive-oil, still going strong. She allows a ten-year-old to lead her into the fundamentalist strongholds of the suburbs of Algiers - where she makes a good friend.

Plunging southwards, regardless, into the desert, she at last shares a lunch of salt-cured Saharan haggis with her old friends, in a green and pleasant palm grove perfumed by flowering henna: once, it...
ES Index : 1
Number of Words in Auth: 2
Formats : EPUB
Number of Formats : 1
Has Cover : Yes
All Identifiers : isbn:9780330464970
Test Text Series Index: Honey
Single Author : Annie Hawes
Original Source : MIRC Files_New_OooopsB
Sorted Author by LN, FN: Annie Hawes
Title Length : 018
Title Parm D : A Handful of Honey
Title Parm F : A Handful of Honey
Num of Aut : 1
Title Parm B : (
Record ID : 3122
Template Work Area : Honey
ES Name : Handful of Honey
Uncomma Author : Annie Hawes
Title Parm A : A Handful of Honey