{"product_id":"9780719597404","title":"Yemen","description":"Author: Tim Mackintosh-Smith\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780719597404\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: John Murray\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jan 2008\u003cbr\u003ePages: 304\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur ideas of the Arabian Peninusula have been hijacked: by images of the desert, by oil, by the Gulf War. But there is another Arabia.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the Classical geographers Yemen was a fabulous land where flying serpents guarded sacred incense groves. Medieval Arab visitors told of disappearing islands and menstruating mountains. Vita Sackville-West found Aden 'precisely the most repulsive corner of the world'. Arguably the most fascinating but least known country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attracting comment that ranges from the superficial to the wildly fictitious. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eYemen: Travels in Dictionary Land\u003c\/i\u003e, Tim Mackintosh-Smith writes with an intimacy and depth of knowledge gained through over twenty years among the Yemenis. He is a travelling companion of the best sort - erudite, witty and eccentric. Crossing mountain, desert, ocean and three millennia of history, he portrays hyrax hunters and dhow skippers, a noseless regicide, and a sword-wielding tyrant with a passion for Heinz Russian salad. Yet even the ordinary Yemenis are extraordinary: their family tree goes back to Noah and is rooted in a land which, in the words of a contemporary poet, has become the dictionary of its people.  Every page of this book is dashed - like the land it describes - with the marvellous.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47857147740318,"sku":"ADS-9780719597404","price":26.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780719597404.jpg?v=1781481942","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780719597404","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}