# Yemen

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- Book: [Yemen](https://www.bookquiver.com/tim-mackintosh-smith/yemen) ([Yemen.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tim-mackintosh-smith/yemen.md))
- Authors: [Tim Mackintosh-Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/tim-mackintosh-smith)
- Publisher: John Murray
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-4854-696-7
- Published: 2011-12-08
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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. In Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land, 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.