Amongst the numerous hand-written manuscripts that the poet and artist Michael Glendening left after his death in 1995 was the note: "The following story reports a visit to Tangier; it is, substantially, true." So begins his account of his 1984 ill-fated trip to Morocco. he was 26 and had already hitch-hiked his way across Europe with no money in his pocket and little more than good faith in human nature to keep him going. He had spent one night in...