Yemen : the unknown Arabia

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Label

Yemen : the unknown Arabia

Title remainder

the unknown Arabia

Statement of responsibility

Tim Mackintosh-Smith ; with etchings by Martin Yeoman

Creator

• Mackintosh-Smith, Tim

Subject

• Mackintosh-Smith, Tim -- 1961-
• Yemen (Republic) -- Description and travel

Genre

• Description and travel
• 1961-

Language

eng

Summary

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. 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 part of Arabia, but it is like no place else on Earth

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

953.3

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR6114.A94

LC item number

M33 2014

Literary form

non fiction