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| Paperback 2001 |
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Yemen is arguably the most fascinating and least known country in the Arab world. Long regarded by classical geographers as a fabulous land where flying serpents guarded sacred incense groves, our current ideas of this country at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula have been hijacked -- by images of the desert, by oil, by the Gulf War. But, as Tim Mackintosh-Smith reminds us with this brilliant book, there is another Arabia.
In Yemen -- winner of the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award and a bestseller in five printings in the UK -- Mackintosh-Smith writes with an intimacy and depth of knowledge gained through thirteen years among the Yemenis. Crossing mountain, desert, ocean and three millennia of history, he portrays a land where men chew leaves and camels live on fish; where men wear pinstriped lounge-suit jackets on top, skirts below, and wicked curved daggers in the middle; a city that seems to have been baked, not built, of iced gingerbread. In this book, Yemen is a part of Arabia, but it is like no place else on Earth. A book in the tradition of the best of Pico Iyer, Yemen is an Arabian Grand Tour, a book in which every page is filled -- like the land it describes -- with the marvelous.
About the Author :
Tim Mackintosh Smith has contributed to Yemen: The Unknown Arabia as an author.
Tim Mackintosh-Smith has lived in San'a— the Yemeni capital— for the last twenty years. His acclaimed "Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah "won him a Thomas Cook/"Daily Telegraph" Travel Book Award.
| Title: | Yemen: The Unknown Arabia | Publisher: | Overlook Press |
| Author: | Tim Mackintosh Smith, Martin Yeoman |
| Edition: | Hardcover |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 1585670014 |
| EAN: | 9781585670017 |
| No. of Pages: | 280 |
| Publish Date: | 2000-03-31 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
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