Casablanca Notebook: A Collection of Tales from Morocco by Louise Roberts Sheldon
(Paperback - 2ND)
- Publisher: Unlimited Publishing LLC
- Pub. Date: June 2002
- ISBN-13: 9781588320612
- 256pp
- Edition Description: 2ND
Synopsis
Morocco!
Out of the Orient, into Africa…
Vignettes of Life and Adventure…
A War Correspondent's Story
About the Author
Descended from New England sea captains, Louise Sheldon inherits the traits of a rover, which coupled with fluency in foreign languages became a springboard to a career as a foreign correspondent.
At LIFE magazine for twelve years, Louise covered the United Nations in New York as a reporter and writer, then went on to Paris, Bonn and London. After three years as an Associate Editor of Smithsonian, she moved to Morocco with her husband, Robert E. MacDonald, a member of the diplomatic corps. From Rabat she corresponded for United Press International (Paris), The Christian Science Monitor (Boston), The Middle East and 8 Days (both London magazines) and The International Herald Tribune (Paris).
The only American and the only woman reporting from Morocco, she covered the Saharan War, influencing the U.S. Congress to support this former ally. She continues to write on the arts and travel from numerous foreign countries, such as China, India, Peru, Lithuania and Slovakia.
Louise Sheldon graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. major in German and a minor in Spanish. Later she received an M.A. in French Literature from Northridge University.
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December 08, 2002: If you are tired of the dull dross - yes dross of television fare then pick up a copy of Louise Roberts Sheldon's Casablanca Notebook - it's different! There are three aspects to life in Morocco as she sees it: as the wife of an American diplomat there is the world of glittering social functions; as UPI correspondent, she covers, often under hazardous conditions, the threat of imminent war and the tensions that existed between Morocco and Algeria at that time; however the two aspects are nicely balanced with her deft, oftern droll observations of Moroccans and Europeans that makes this book so engaging! I bought two copes as stocking presents!
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December 03, 2002: CASABLANCA NOTEBOOK is a collection of charming and illuminating essays on a little-understood culture currently much in the news. Written by a former foreign correspondenct, the notebook reveals Morocco through the eyes of a sophisticated Western woman, a Foreign Service wife who found the Moroccan Muslims to be warm and outgoing in their acceptance of the "foreigners" in their midst. The stories are an affectionate, witty look at a culture so different from ours as to be almost unimaginable, yet the author subtly makes us aware of the sameness of human nature as she wryly describes the foibles and follies, aspirations and achievements of the Moroccans she encountered as an eight-year resident of that exotic land.
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