"I stand in portico hung with gentian-blue ipomeas ...
With a characteristic sense of adventure, Wh. and look out on a land of mists and mysteries; a land of trailing silver veils through which domes and minarets, mighty towers and ramparts of flushed stone, hot palm groves and Atlas snows, peer and disappear at the will of the Atlantic cloud-drifts" A classic of travel writing, In Morocco is Edith Wharton\'s remarkable account of her journey to the country during World War I. "I stand in portico hung with gentian-blue ipomeas ..