resort, on the approaches to the Atlas trekking routes.
The Foyle Reading Room of the Royal Geographical Society (www.rgs.org; cnr Exhibition
Rd & Kensington Gore, Kensington, London, UK; admission per day £10) has one of the
world’s largest private collections of maps, and you can view its catalogue online.
In addition to the international shops listed in the boxed text, websites including Amazon
(www.amazon.co.uk) sell maps such as West Col Productions maps of the Toubkal and
M’Goun Massifs.
INTERNATIONAL SPECIALIST TRAVEL MAP & BOOKSHOPS
Australia
Melbourne Map Centre (www.melbmap.com.au; Malvern East, Victoria) Australia’s largest map shop stocks half-a-dozen
Morocco maps.
France
Au Vieux Campeur (www.au-vieux-campeur.fr, in French)
UK
Stanfords (www.stanfords.co.uk; London & Bristol) The world’s largest travel map and bookshop, it sells maps including
Editorial Piolet’s 1:40,000 map of the Jebel Toubkal area; and West Col’s series of 1:160,000 maps of the Atlas, based on the
Soviet military survey maps.
The Map Shop (www.themapshop.co.uk; Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire)
USA
East View Map Link (http://store.maplink.com) Has a list of other map shops in the United States and elsewhere.
Omnimap (www.omnimap.com; Burlington, North Carolina) Sells an excellent range of maps, including the West Col and
Soviet military survey maps, some available digitally.
Rand McNally (http://store.randmcnally.com)Books
The booklet Morocco: Mountain and Desert Tourism (2005), published by Office National
Marocain du Tourisme (ONMT), the Moroccan tourist office, has a good introduction to trekking
in Morocco; plus lists of car-hire companies, bureaux des guides (guide offices), tourist offices,
gîtes d ’ étape (trekkers’ hostels), huts, refuges (huts), camp sites, souq (market) days and
other information.
You should be able to pick it up in ONMT offices overseas and in Marrakesh and other major
cities, or at Imlil’s bureau des guides .
Edisud/Belvisi publishes Gravures Rupestres du Haut Atlas, which looks at the rock art of
Plateau du Yagour, northeast of Setti Fatma, and Randonnées Pédestres Dans le Massif du
Mgoun . These are available online, and sporadically at tourist offices, in bookshops in Rabat
and Marrakesh, from the Club Alpin Français (CAF) and in the CAF’s Oukaïmeden refuge .
The Mountains Look on Marrakech is Hamish Brown’s atmospheric account of a 96-day trek
across the mountains.