Tunisia [antikvár]

Designed as a companion volume to my Tunisia a Holiday Guide and Essential Tunisia, this pictorial record of the country's attractions has in somé respects become a requiem. The photographs have been taken with the help of Jacques Perez in the course of the last twenty years. And Tunisia in those two decades has been physically transformed. The grass-roots growth of the 1970s continues - new settlements and suburbs, clinics, schools and low-cost homes - but with the 1980s came a spate of prestige projects: motorways and two new tram-cum-railways, nationwide industrial zones, citycentre skyscrapers and the Arab League headquarters, dams, canals and international pipe-lines, lavish tourist complexes, more international airports and splendid pleasure ports. It is no longer babies but building sites that characterize the new Tunisia. The camera, we know, does not lie. Most of the views reproduced in this book remain unchanged and will, one hopes, survive the 1990s. Others I have retained, unashamedly, in the hope that the visitor, like the photographer, will be able to 'see selectively'; to appreciate an ancient site despite the shanties rising around it, and so detach, visually,