In Morocco

In Morocco (2004)
Edith Wharton · Tauris Parke Paperbacks

Before Instagram travel diaries, there was Edith Wharton—novelist, aristocrat, and reluctant camel passenger. In In Morocco, she swaps New York salons for Saharan dust, documenting her 1917 diplomatic journey through a Morocco still under French control and barely touched by Western modernity.

With a gaze as sharp as her pen, Wharton glides through veiled harems, silent medinas, desert fortresses and fleeting encounters with colonial officers and Berber tribesmen. But this isn’t armchair tourism—this is cultural anthropology by way of a grande dame with opinions (and packing trunks). Her prose is richly textured, curious, and not always politically correct—but always compelling.

At Crappy Old Books, our copies may be a little sun-faded, but then again, so was Wharton by the end of her desert crossing. If you like your travel writing eloquent, opinionated, and a little dusty around the edges, this is a vintage treat worth unpacking. Sand not included.

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