Yemen
Subtitle: the unknown Arabia
By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith ; with etchings by Martin Yeoman
Contributors: Yeoman, Martin
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Woodstock, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Mackintosh-Smith, Tim, -- 1961- -- Journeys -- Yemen (Republic); Yemen (Republic) -- Description and travel
Description: "Writing with an intimacy and a depth of knowledge gained through thirteen years among the Yemenis, Mackintosh-Smith proves himself a traveling companion of the best sort - erudite, witty, and eccentric. Crossing mountain, desert, ocean, and three millennia of history, he portrays a land that, in the words of a contemporary poet, has become the dictionary of its people.

In Yemen: The Unknown Arabia, we witness the extraordinary in the ordinary: men who chew leaves and camels that live on fish; a city that seems to have been baked, not built, of iced gingerbread; not to speak of shepherdesses who tend their flocks in gold sequinned dresses. Yemen is a part of Arabia, but it is like no place else on earth."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-270) and index