HARRIS, Walter Burton.
Tafilet. The narrative of a journey of exploration in the Atlas Mountains and the oases of the north-west Sahara ... Illustrated by Maurice Romberg from sketches and photographs by the author.
Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1895.
8vo, pp. xii, 386; with half-title, frontispiece, 7 plates, 30 in-text illustrations, and 2 maps (1 folding); a few corners at end slightly bumped and dusty, plate facing p. 342 almost loose; good in original blue-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover lettered in black (secondary binding without gilt woman on upper cover); some wear to extremities and staining to covers, spine dulled; cuttings pasted to verso of final plate and to rear endpapers.
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Tafilet. The narrative of a journey of exploration in the Atlas Mountains and the oases of the north-west Sahara ... Illustrated by Maurice Romberg from sketches and photographs by the author.
First edition of this description of Morocco by Harris (1866-1933), graduate of Caius College, Cambridge, and The Times correspondent in Tangier.
The narrative relates his journey in 1894 from Marrakesh into the Atlas Mountains, and thence to Tafilet (or Tafilalt), the largest oasis in Morocco. Three newspaper clippings have been affixed to the rear endpapers: all three are from editions of The Times, July 1905 and cover the story of ‘the petition of Sir Harry Aubrey de Vere Maclean, K.C.M.G., Kaid in the army of his Shereefian Majesty the Sultan of Morocco, for the dissolution of his marriage with Dame Kathleen Maclean, née Coe, on the ground of her adultery with Spencer Lewis Mortimer’ and the subsequent divorce trial.
