MOROCCO 



The Road of the 

 Thousand Kasbahs 



September 24 - 

 October 8, 1994 



Few places evoke images of such exotic splendor as the North African coun- 

 try of Morocco. With opulent cities replete with minarets, mosques, palaces 

 and souks, ancient kasbahs filled with colorfully robed Berbers and starkly 

 beautiful landscapes, Morocco is a feast for the senses. 



This September, an American Museum guest specialist in Islamic studies will 

 lead an exciting trip to the exotic cities, towns and desert villages of Morocco. 

 We will visit such fabled and exotic cities as Marrakesh, Fes and Meknes, 

 while also seeing a very different Morocco as we explore the Sahara Desert, 

 the Atlas Mountains and the walled adobe villages of the renowned Road of 

 the Thousand Kasbahs. 



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Valerius Geist (page 66), a Russian- 

 bom Canadian of German extraction, is 

 director of the Environmental Science 

 Program at the University of Calgary in 

 Alberta. Since the late 1950s he has con- 

 ducted zoological fieldwork in various 

 parts of British Columbia and Alberta, in 

 the Yukon Territory, in Texas, and at the 

 Bandipur Sanc- 

 tuary in India. 

 He first became 



interested in SiRSIfe'5' -»»$' 



horns and ant- 

 lers during his 

 first-year stud- 

 ies in zoology 

 at the Univer- 

 sity of British 

 Columbia, 

 from which he 

 received a bachelor's degree in science 

 and a doctorate in zoology. In 1971, he 

 broadened his focus to include a new 

 task: developing programs to train young 

 scientists to effectively apply new knowl- 

 edge in the larger social arena. In addition 

 to ungulates, his present interests include 

 game ranching. Ice Age mammals, the bi- 

 ology of health, and human evolution. 



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Having grown up on a New Hampshire 

 dairy farm, Margery Coombs (page 70) 

 was well acquainted with herbivores of 

 the hoofed variety. But not until she was a 

 doctoral candidate at Columbia Univer- 

 sity in the 1970s did she meet the clawed 

 kind, chalicotheres: "The American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History has the best 



overall collec- 

 tion of chali- 

 cotheres in the 

 world, and after 

 being intro- 

 duced to them, 

 I found them to 

 be fascinating." 

 i^^B asKm '• ■ Her interest in 

 the systematics, 

 anatomy, and 

 ecology of 

 these unusual, 

 extinct beasts 

 continues unabated. An associate profes- 

 sor of biology at the University of Massa- 

 chusetts at Amherst, Coombs is also 

 working on an undergraduate textbook of 

 vertebrate paleontology. For the future, 

 she has her eye on some international co- 

 operative projects, involving chali- 

 cotheres in Kazakhstan, India, and China. 



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