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| | 1. |  | Yemen: The Unknown Arabia
from Overlook TP
Price: $9.20
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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
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| | 4. |  | A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen
from The Overlook Press
Price: $6.45
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A travel memoir written in the late 1930s - and 1000 years ago. It's a beautifully written, gentle book of a harsh land and its tribal peoples. Stark, is both poet and pragmatist. More musings and personal interactions than places and things, the book is a pleasure to read and savor. I wonder if the... more info
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| | 5. |  | Shalom Shar'abi and the Kabbalists of Beit El
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $16.49
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Pinchas Giller has created a "scholarly" but altogether readable and accesible account of a group of Sephardic Jews centerd in Israel and how they value and use traditional Kavanot in their structued prayerlife.Kavanot ,roughly translated as intentions, are commonly emphasized in Hassidic Judaism... more info
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| | 8. |  | A History of Modern Yemen
from Cambridge University Press
Price: $25.89
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I spent three months in Yemen last year and bought this book before I went. I'm glad I did, because it turned out to be the perfect primer. A HISTORY OF MODERN YEMEN gives a clear, accessible account of the civil wars throughout the twentieth century that preceded the union of the two Yemens in... more info
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| | 10. |  | Yemen: Jewel of Arabia
from Interlink Publishing Group
Price: $184.21
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Exquisitely photographed, this is a wondrous book to behold. It has enough text to make the pictures interesting, and is well worth reading even if you're illiterate, for the beauty of the pictures, and the stories they tell. I recognized many places in my travels, and found many places I still hope... more info
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