Yemen [Audiobook] download free by Tim Mackintosh Smith
- Listen audiobook: Yemen
- Author: Tim Mackintosh Smith
- Release date: 2007/4/25
- Publisher: HODDER & STOUGHTON GENERAL DIVISION
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780719597404
- Rating: 7.32 of 10
- Votes: 758
- Review by: Arlo Hatcher
- Review rating: 9.73 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/24
- Duration: 3H43M44S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-23
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, MPEG4, AU, WMA, WAV, FLAC (compression ZIP, CAB, TBZ2, RAR, 7Z, JAR)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 31 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 22M11S (6.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Our ideas of the Arabian Peninusula have been hijacked: by images of the desert, by oil, by the Gulf War. But there is another Arabia.For 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. 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Travel & Holiday Guides, Travel Writing
- Download servers: FileServe, Dropbox, Hotfile, Nextcloud, Google Drive, Woelkli, Microsoft OneDrive, Mediafire, Volafile. Compressed in ZIP, CAB, TBZ2, RAR, 7Z, JAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 11.26 USD
- Dimensions: 130x198x19mm
- Weight: 230g
- Printed by: John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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