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| | 1. |  | A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen
from The Overlook Press
Price: $11.53
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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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| | 2. |  | Yemen: The Unknown Arabia
from Overlook TP
Price: $14.21
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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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| | 5. |  | A History of Modern Yemen
from Cambridge University Press
Price: $30.10
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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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