The only work of travel writing by Elias Canetti, The Voices of Marrakesh was first published in German in 1968. It is a record of a visit to Morocco by the author best known for his sociological work, Crowds and Power, an ambitious study of the roots of Fascism, and Auto-da-Fé, a novel set in Vienna on the eve of World War II. Canetti won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. He was born in 1905, in Bulgaria, lived in Zurich and Vienna as a young man, settled in England in 1938, and died in 1994. The Voices of Marrakesh became a classic of literary travel writing and redefined the genre. Canetti provides no historical overview of the city or the country. His description of places and things is vivid, yet economical to the point of minimalism. The events Canetti describes could have taken place 100 years ago or yesterday or tomorrow. Wiley began by making some small watercolors of incidents in The Voices of Marrakesh, then a large preliminary drawing for an etching. He added an underlying map of the walled city of Marrakesh, which is printed in an earthy red, while the drawn images are printed in black. For the book, the etching is partitioned into six pieces, each segment illustrating a story told by Canetti. Karl Bissinger took the photographs that appear in The Voices of Marrakesh while on assignment for Flair magazine in 1949, for a travel piece on Morocco that was published in 1950. Of the pictures taken by Bissinger in Marrakesh and vicinity a selection of 29 photographs was made for this book, 28 in black and white, appearing on every fourth page in the text, and one, as the frontispiece, in color.