![Yemen: Travels In Dictionary Land](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/420/908/1463908420.0.m.jpg)
Yemen: Travels In Dictionary Land
by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0719556228
- ISBN 13
- 9780719556227
- Seller
-
Oswestry, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Synopsis
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 Arabian Peninsula have been hijacked by images of the terrorist strongholds, drone attacks, and diplomatic tensions. But, as Mackintosh-Smith reminds us in this newly updated book, there is another Arabia. Yemen may be a part of Arabia, but it is like no place on earth.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Hall of Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 220485
- Title
- Yemen: Travels In Dictionary Land
- Author
- Tim Mackintosh-Smith
- Illustrator
- Martin Yeoman
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0719556228
- ISBN 13
- 9780719556227
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1997
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel / Middle East;
Terms of Sale
Hall of Books
About the Seller
Hall of Books
About Hall of Books
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...