American writer Harry L. Foster visited Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia at the end of the 1920s and offered a rare look into Francophone North Africa in the colonial period.
With his usual sharp eye for detail – and even sharper tongue – he captures his encounters with the local people, the colonials and way of life on the Barbary Coast where piracy was rife for generations.
Foster's tangles with local cultural and religious customs, his love-hate relationship with the French, and his eternal battle not to be ripped off by the fanatically determined tourist touts make for an entertaining and insightful journey.
This annotated edition includes a new map of Foster's journey and detailed notes. A limited number of changes have also been made to correct some eccentric punctuation, typos and odd spellings in the text of the first edition.
