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Yemen: The Unknown Arabia

By Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Yemen: The Unknown Arabia

By Tim Mackintosh-Smith

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Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2001-4-1 Pages: 280 Publisher:. Penguin Yemen is arguably the most fascinating and leastknown country in the Arab world Classical geography described itas a fabulous land where flying serpents guarded incense groves.Medieval Arab visitors told of disappearing islands andmenstruating mountains. Our current ideas of this country at thesouthern tip of the Arabian Peninsula have been overrun by imagesof the desert. by oil. by the Gulf War-but there is another Arabia.Writing with an intimacy and a depth of knowledge gained throughthirteen years among the Yemenis. Mackintosh-Smith is a travelingcompanion of the best sort-erudite. witty. and eccentric. Crossingmountain. desert. ocean. and three millennia of history. he revealsa land that. in the words of a contemporary poet. has become thedictionary of its people In Yemen:.. The Unknown Arabia ...
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
280
Release Date:
2001-04-01
Publication Date:
2001-04-01
Publisher:
Overlook Books
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1585671398
Weight:
347 g
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