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Book SynopsisThe award-winning travel book by the author of Travels with a Tangerine
Trade Review'Mackintosh-Smith's achievement is to create an entertaining and enlightened view of Yemen, free from the familiar prejudices about Arabs, touched instead by sophistication and savagery, by grim reality and fabulous tales ... masterful' -- Sunday Times 'Yemen ... is assured and agile: witty, quirky, gossipy, learned, poetic ... [Tim Mackintosh-Smith] has created a work that will endure' -- The Times 'Mackintosh-Smith seems incapable of writing a dull sentence, and in him the scholar, the linguist and the storyteller swap hats with marvellous speed' -- New York Times 'Mackintosh-Smith succeeds admirably in shining a light on an obscure corner of the world' -- Financial Times 'He freshens the genre, adding a street-wise sensibility to impressive erudition ... very promising and accomplished' -- Times Literary Supplement
