Orwell in Morocco

A photograph from Orwell's trip, with his wife Eileen, to Morocco in 1938, as Orwell recovered from a life-threatening lung haemorrhage. His frequent complaints about its dull landscape - 'Morocco seems to me a beastly dull country' - helped inspire 'Coming Up For Air', his elegaic novel on England, and his renewed acquaintance with Charles Dickens' work led to one of his most famous essays.