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Yemen is arguably the most fascinating and leastknown country in the Arab world. Classical geography described itas a fabulous land where flying serpents guarded incense groves.Medieval Arab visitors told of disappearing islands andmenstruating mountains. Our current ideas of this country at thesouthern tip of the Arabian Peninsula have been overrun by imagesof the desert, by oil, by the Gulf War-but there is another Arabia.Writing with an intimacy and a depth of knowledge gained throughthirteen years among the Yemenis, Mackintosh-Smith is a travelingcompanion of the best sort-erudite, witty, and eccentric. Crossingmountain, desert, ocean, and three millennia of history, he revealsa land that, in the words of a contemporary poet, has become thedictionary of its people. In Yemen: The Unknown Arabia wewitness the extraordinary in the ordinary. Yemen is a part ofArabia, but it is like no place on earth, and Yemen is abook in which every page is filled-like the land it describes-withthe marvelous.

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