Author : Maximilien Antoine Cyprien Henri Poisson de La Martinière
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Morocco
ISBN : NYPL:33433082447636
Morocco, Journeys in the Kingdom of Fez and to the Court of Mulai Hassan by Maximilien Antoine Cyprien Henri Poisson de La Martinière Pdf
"The shallow scratches made in the still almost virgin soil of Morocco by historians and travelers have increased the thirst for any really useful and scientific information regarding that country; for since the time of Leo Africanus a long blank occurs, filled up, indeed, by such writers as Windhus and Leared in the last century, and, in our own time, by the more practical researches of Rohlfs, Tissot and Sir Joseph Hooker; but while these works have all their separate interests, the volume now to hand will occupy in its turn a special page in the history of the northern division of Morocco. It is with reluctance I have acceded to M. de la Martiniere's request to write a few lines of Preface to his book, but my former connections with the country, and the fact of my being able, as far as my own knowledge goes, to testify to the accuracy of his statements, have induced me to make the attempt"--Preface.