""I stand in portico hung with gentian-blue ipomeas ... and look out on a land
of mists and mysteries; a land of trailing silver veils through which domes and
minarets, mighty towers and ramparts of flushed stone, hot palm groves and Atlas
snows, peer and disappear at the will of the Atlantic cloud-drifts""
A classic of travel writing, "In Morocco "is Edith Wharton's remarkable account
of her journey to the country during World War I. With a characteristic sense of
adventure, Wharton set out to explore Morocco and its people, recording her
impressions and encounters. She traveled--by military jeep--to Rabat, Moulay
Idriss, Fex and Marrakech, from