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Books written by Tahir Shah

Our Morocco: Moroccans and Expats Share Their Lives, Hopes, Dreams, and Adventures

Forward by Barb Mackraz, Founder & Director of the Morocco Library Project.All proceeds of this collection go to fund the Morocco Library Project (https: //www.moroccolibraries.org), an NGO that builds and supports libraries in remote, ...
Sorcerer's Apprentice

Follows the author's apprenticeship to one of India's master conjurers and his initiation into the brotherhood of godmen, during which he journeys the subcontinent, meeting a plethora of adhus, sages, sorcerers, hypnotists, and humbugs. 15 ...
In Arabian Nights

A link in the chain of scholars and teachers who have passed these stories down for centuries like a baton in a relay race, Shah reaches layers of culture that most visitors hardly realize exist, and eventually discovers the story living in ...
Complete Collection of Travel Literature

The mbobi, the fattening hut, is a place where she can learn much deeper information... information about people, about life.' Across Africa initiation rites abound for both young men and women, all of them drawing a firm line between ...
Beyond the Devil's Teeth: Journeys in Gondwanaland

Beyond the Devil's Teeth: Journeys in Gondwanaland
Beyond the Devil's Teeth Paperback

of python, head of puff-adder, nose of crocodile, brow of hyena, head of dogfish, and human and lizard gall, a tooth of a field rat, a scorpion, a burned honey bee, a baby's head, a human caul, some soldier ants, some powdered ...
Beyond the Devil's Teeth

Beyond the Devil's Teeth
In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

The author continues his account of his adopted home of Morocco, exploring the tradition of the spiritual quest in terms of his own journey of self-discovery and his father's legacy of storytelling as he reveals Morocco's history, mystical ...
Sorcerer's Apprentice: An Incredible Journey Into the World of India's Godmen

Jimmy's extravaganza ended abruptly at three a.m. As Bhalu and I made our way from the hall, I felt deflated. ... Sitting in the doorway of Jan Fishan's tomb, Hafiz Jan had recounted all he knew about the Anglo-Afghan Wars.
Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dyslexic edition

Jimmy's extravaganza ended abruptly at three a.m. As Bhalu and I made our way from the hall, I felt deflated. ... SITTING IN THE doorway of Jan Fishan's tomb, Hafiz Jan had recounted all he knew about the Anglo-Afghan Wars.
In Search of King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon, the Bible's wisest king, also possessed extraordinary wealth. He built a temple at Jerusalem that was said to be more fabulous than any other landmark in the ancient...
In Search of King Solomon's Mines: A Modern Adventurer's Quest for Gold and History in the Land of the Queen...

In this new adventure, Tahir Shah tries his hand at the quest. Intrigued by a map he finds in a shop not far from the site of the temple, Shah assembles a multitude of clues to the location of Solomon’s mines.
Sorcerer's Apprentice: An Incredible Journey into the World of India's Godmen

In this incredible book, Tahir Shah lifts the veil on the East’s most puzzling miracles and exposes a side of India that most never imagine exists. “By turns enrapturing and disquieting, droll and poignant.” —Booklist (starred ...
Beyond the Devil's Teeth: Journeys in Gondwanaland

This created what are now known as India, Africa and South America. The huge landmass was named after the Gond people of India. Meeting a Gond storyteller on a visit to Bombay, Tahir Shah heard their ancient saga.
In Search of King Solomon's Mines

The grand temple he built in Jerusalem was covered in gold. Over the ages, many have sought to find the source of the great king's wealth -- but none with so much flair, wit, or whimsy as Tahir Shah.
Geotextiles: Production, Properties and Performance

E. Leflaive, Geotext. Geomembranes 2 (1985) pp. 23-30. R. Koemer, Should I Specify a Woven or Nonwoven? Geotechnical Fabrics Report, IFAS, Minnesota, USA, 1984. S.M. Luettich, J.P. Giroud and R.C. Bachus, Geotext.
In Arabian Nights

Inspired by this, on his return to his adopted homeland, he embarked on an adventure worthy of the mythical Arabian Nights and went in search of the stories and storytellers that have nourished this ancient, vibrant country for centuries.
In Search of King Solomon's Mines, paperback edition

Taking his leads from a mixture of texts including The Septuagint, the earliest known form of the Bible, as well as using geological, geographical and folkloric sources, Tahir Shah sets out in search for Solomon's gold mines.
In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition

In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition
In Search of King Solomon's Mines

A well-known geologist in London had suggested I look for gold in the Afar region, near the Red Sea coast. The ferocious Danakil people who live there ... Almost fifty years before, my father had also searched for King Solomon's mines.