Tim Mackintosh-smith

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1.		The Travels of Ibn Battutah from Macmillan UK Price: $12.21 Customer Review: If you want to read ibn Battutah in his own words, this is the best source currently available. But know what you are getting. 300 pages of small print, no pictures, no maps, no chronology, just the voice of ibn Battutah, echoing down through the ages. 25 pages of footnotes at the back help with the... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		The Southern Gates of Arabia (John Murray Travel Classics) from John Murray Publishers Ltd Customer Review: Once before in recorded history "the West" had an obsession with a product of the Arabian Peninsula - then it was frankincense. This was burned in the funeral rites of the deceased, particularly in the Roman Empire, and for the rich, it was often burned in significant quantities. Supplying this need... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		Travels with a Tangerine: From Morocco to Turkey in the Footsteps of Islam's Greatest Traveler from Random House Trade Paperbacks Price: $11.21 Customer Review: This little book is so easily read that I find myself picking it up and just opening any page - where I am transported to a different universe. The illustrations are delightful. The esoteric subjects of Arabic literature and history are opened up with fluid grace. Who would have thought that a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		The Hall of a Thousand Columns: Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah from John Murray Publishers	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		Yemen: The Unknown Arabia from Overlook TP Price: $14.21 Customer Review: Very much a British Arabist travelogue, and as Sir Charles Doughty, Sir Richard Burton, Wilfred Thesiger, Freya Stark, and T.E. Lawrence-- and perhaps less fervently so Jonathan Raban-- have demonstrated the past century-and-a-half, Mackintosh-Smith takes the trouble to enter the culture. He learns... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		Yemen from Picador Customer Review: This is a book of poetry. MacKintosh has immersed himself so much in the culture that he has produced poetry as prose, in the highest genre of the Arab. I try to write critical reviews. To weigh the good and the bad. I can't think of anything bad to say about this book. Whether or not I get to... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.	[no image]	The Christmas Fox from Slighty Foxed Limited	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.	[no image]	City of Divine and Earthly Joys. The Description of Sanca (Yemen Translation Series, #3) from American Institute for Yemeni Studies	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.	[no image]	Yemen The Unknown Arabia from The Overlook Press	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.	[no image]	Yemen: The Unknown Arabia from Overlook Press	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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