About the book: 1985 / The book tells about the author’s trips to the Maghreb countries - Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia - in 1973-1983, about meetings, conversations with political and public figures of these countries, with the peasants of Algeria and the mountaineers of the Atlas, with workers and students, writers and historians. The author describes modern landscapes of the Maghreb, monuments of the past, features of life and customs of the Maghreb people. The book shows how the old and the new, tradition and modernity are combined in the life of the Maghrebians..