The Lost World Of Socotra - Softcover

Richard Boggs

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905299958 ISBN 13: 9781905299959

Publisher: Stacey International, 2009

Synopsis

The islands of Socotra lie some 190 nautical miles off the southern coast of Yemen, in the Gulf of Aden. Their relative isolation merely hints at their extraordinary foreignness. Like a lesser Galapagos, these islands boast flora and fauna found nowhere else on Earth. Moreover, the Socotran people have their own language (which lacks a script) and distinctive culture, cuisine and architecture: neither Arabian nor African, yet strongly and distinctively Socotran. Richard Boggs spent many months in this remote and other-worldly archipelago, mixing with the Socotran peoples and capturing in world class photographs the uniqueness of the land and its life. 'The Lost World of Socotra' brings this remarkable location to a new audience and is, truly, a journey through lands like no other.

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Review:

Richard Boggs's passion for the island is as intense as Adam Nicolson's for the Shiants or Tim Robinson's for Aran. His writing is by turns poetic, jaunty and poignant. His pictures are both a dream and a reminder of the threats that lie just out of shot. --Tim Mackintosh-Smith

About the Author:

Richard Boggs is a writer and photographer, who has traveled extensively in Arabia and Africa. He currently works for the British Council: his most recent posting was to teach English in Khartoum. In his spare time he lives in his native Ireland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stacey International
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1905299958
• ISBN 13: 9781905299959
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96