Yemen: The Unknown Arabia - Softcover

MacKintosh-Smith, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1468308823 ISBN 13: 9781468308822

Publisher: Overlook Pr, 2014

Synopsis

A country long regarded by classical geographers as a fabulous land where flying serpents guarded sacred incense groves, while medieval Arab visitors told tales of disappearing islands and menstruating mountains. Our current ideas of this country at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula have been hijacked by images of the terrorist strongholds, drone attacks, and diplomatic tensions. But, as Mackintosh-Smith reminds us in this newly updated book, there is another Arabia. Yemen may be a part of Arabia, but it is like no place on earth.

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Review:

"Mackintosh-Smith brings us to a place we don t know at all and lets us in . . . he seems incapable of writing a dull sentence, and in him the scholar, the linguist and the storyteller swap hats with marvelous speed." --Jason Goodwin, "The New York Times Book Review"

Mackintosh-Smith brings us to a place we don t know at all and lets us in . . . he seems incapable of writing a dull sentence, and in him the scholar, the linguist and the storyteller swap hats with marvelous speed. Jason Goodwin, "The New York Times Book Review""

About the Author:

Tim Mackintosh-Smith has lived in Yemen since 1982, earning the official title of Shaykh of Nazarenes. This, his first book, won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Pr
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1468308823
• ISBN 13: 9781468308822
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284