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- catalog abstract ""In Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land Tim Mackintosh-Smith writes with an intimacy and depth of knowledge gained through thirteen 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." "Accompanied by etchings drawn from the life by Martin Yeoman, Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land is an Arabian Grand Tour, a book in which every page is dashed - like the land it describes - with the marvellous."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10341475.
- catalog coverage "Yemen (Republic) Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Yemen (Republic) History.".
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description ""In Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land Tim Mackintosh-Smith writes with an intimacy and depth of knowledge gained through thirteen 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." "Accompanied by etchings drawn from the life by Martin Yeoman, Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land is an Arabian Grand Tour, a book in which every page is dashed - like the land it describes - with the marvellous."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-270) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 280 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0719556228 :".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : John Murray,".
- catalog spatial "Yemen (Republic) Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Yemen (Republic) History.".
- catalog subject "915.330453 21".
- catalog subject "DS247.Y48 M335 1997".
- catalog title "Yemen : travels in dictionary land / Tim Mackintosh-Smith ; with etchings by Martin Yeoman.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".