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Tangier, by Josh Shoemake - review

24 August 2013

9:00 AM

24 August 2013

9:00 AM

Tangier: A Literary Guide for Travellers Josh Shoemake

I.B. Tauris, pp.299, £16.99

This may sound a little orientalist, but Tangier has some claim to being the most foreign city in the world. Back in the day, its position at the northernmost tip of Africa was regarded as the edge of civilisation — more than that, as the edge of what was known, the edge of everything.

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