“In 1931, without any preconceived notion of what I should find there, I
paid a visit to Morocco. Two months, I thought, would suffice for
seeing the place. And so they would have if what I saw had not awakened a
wish to see more, a wish which seemed to grow even as it was being
satisfied. At first it expressed itself as a desire to wander over the
surface of the land … After the War I returned to Morocco and bought a
home there. This time I became aware of the fact that it was not the
landscape I wanted to know, but the people.”
– Paul Bowles
Tangier tours Paul Bowles: The writer of The Sheltering Sky
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