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| #1417265 in Books | 2014-06-03 | 2014-06-03 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.05 x.80 x6.05l,.80 | File type: PDF | 336 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| An insider's view of an unknown world|By Kerryah|As author Tim Mackintosh-Smith's book is sub-titled in this edition, Yemen is the unknown Arabia, one that is in many respects, at least at the time this book was published (2000)least like its Arabic neighbors.
The author is a long-standing resident of the capital San'a, and uses it as his base to explore the language||“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 N
Arguably the most fascinating and least understood country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attracting comment that ranges from the superficial to the wildly fantastic.
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 Ara...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Yemen: The Unknown Arabia | Tim Mackintosh-Smith. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
