Author: E. Locken
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557080495
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Travel Journal Yemen - Keep a diary of your holiday / vacation to Yemen, includes diary, budget planner, activity planner, packing checklist and other useful aids to help you record and remember every aspect of your trip.
Travel Journal Yemen
Author: E. Locken
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557080495
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Travel Journal Yemen - Keep a diary of your holiday / vacation to Yemen, includes diary, budget planner, activity planner, packing checklist and other useful aids to help you record and remember every aspect of your trip.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557080495
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Travel Journal Yemen - Keep a diary of your holiday / vacation to Yemen, includes diary, budget planner, activity planner, packing checklist and other useful aids to help you record and remember every aspect of your trip.
Yemen
Author: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1848546963
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Arguably the most fascinating but least known country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attracting comment that ranges from the superficial to the wildly fictitious. In Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land, Tim Mackintosh-Smith writes with an intimacy and depth of knowledge gained through over twenty years among the Yemenis. He is a travelling companion of the best sort - erudite, witty and eccentric. Crossing mountain, desert, ocean and three millennia of history, he portrays hyrax hunters and dhow skippers, a noseless regicide, and a sword-wielding tyrant with a passion for Heinz Russian salad. Yet even the ordinary Yemenis are extraordinary: their family tree goes back to Noah and is rooted in a land which, in the words of a contemporary poet, has become the dictionary of its people. Every page of this book is dashed - like the land it describes - with the marvellous.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1848546963
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Arguably the most fascinating but least known country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attracting comment that ranges from the superficial to the wildly fictitious. In Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land, Tim Mackintosh-Smith writes with an intimacy and depth of knowledge gained through over twenty years among the Yemenis. He is a travelling companion of the best sort - erudite, witty and eccentric. Crossing mountain, desert, ocean and three millennia of history, he portrays hyrax hunters and dhow skippers, a noseless regicide, and a sword-wielding tyrant with a passion for Heinz Russian salad. Yet even the ordinary Yemenis are extraordinary: their family tree goes back to Noah and is rooted in a land which, in the words of a contemporary poet, has become the dictionary of its people. Every page of this book is dashed - like the land it describes - with the marvellous.
Journal
Author: Manchester Geographical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Author: Paul Torday
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547416253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
An unassuming scientist takes an unbelievable adventure in the Middle East in this “extraordinary” novel—the inspiration for the major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor (The Guardian). Dr. Alfred Jones lives a quiet, predictable life. He works as a civil servant for the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence in London; his wife, Mary, is a determined, no-nonsense financier; he has simple routines and unassuming ambitions. Then he meets Muhammad bin Zaidi bani Tihama, a Yemeni sheikh with money to spend and a fantastic—and ludicrous—dream of bringing the sport of salmon fishing to his home country. Suddenly, Dr. Jones is swept up in an outrageous plot to attempt the impossible, persuaded by both the sheikh himself and power-hungry members of the British government who want nothing more than to spend the sheikh’s considerable wealth. But somewhere amid the bureaucratic spin and Yemeni tall tales, Dr. Jones finds himself thinking bigger, bolder, and more impossibly than he ever has before. Told through letters, emails, interview transcripts, newspaper articles, and personal journal entries, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is “a triumph” that both takes aim at institutional absurdity and gives loving support to the ideas of hopes, dreams, and accomplishing the impossible (The Guardian).
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547416253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
An unassuming scientist takes an unbelievable adventure in the Middle East in this “extraordinary” novel—the inspiration for the major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor (The Guardian). Dr. Alfred Jones lives a quiet, predictable life. He works as a civil servant for the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence in London; his wife, Mary, is a determined, no-nonsense financier; he has simple routines and unassuming ambitions. Then he meets Muhammad bin Zaidi bani Tihama, a Yemeni sheikh with money to spend and a fantastic—and ludicrous—dream of bringing the sport of salmon fishing to his home country. Suddenly, Dr. Jones is swept up in an outrageous plot to attempt the impossible, persuaded by both the sheikh himself and power-hungry members of the British government who want nothing more than to spend the sheikh’s considerable wealth. But somewhere amid the bureaucratic spin and Yemeni tall tales, Dr. Jones finds himself thinking bigger, bolder, and more impossibly than he ever has before. Told through letters, emails, interview transcripts, newspaper articles, and personal journal entries, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is “a triumph” that both takes aim at institutional absurdity and gives loving support to the ideas of hopes, dreams, and accomplishing the impossible (The Guardian).
Yemen and the World
Author: Laurent Bonnefoy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190922591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The influence of Yemen and its people extends far beyond its nominal borders, both historically and in the present day, as Laurent Bonnefoy reveals
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190922591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The influence of Yemen and its people extends far beyond its nominal borders, both historically and in the present day, as Laurent Bonnefoy reveals
Yemen
Author: Victoria Clark
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300167342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"Yemen is the dark horse of the Middle East. Every so often it enters the headlines for one alarming reason or another -- links with al-Qaeda, kidnapped Westerners, explosive population growth -- then sinks into obscurity again. But, as Victoria Clark argues in this riveting book, we ignore Yemen at our peril. The poorest state in the Arab world, it is still dominated by its tribal makeup and has become a perfect breeding ground for insurgent and terrorist movements. Clark returns to the country where she was born to discover a perilously fragile state that deserves more of our understanding and attention. On a series of visits to Yemen between 2004 and 2009, she meets politicians, influential tribesmen, oil workers and jihadists as well as ordinary Yemenis. Untangling Yemen's history before examining the country's role in both al-Qaeda and the wider jihadist movement today, Clark presents a lively, clear, and up-to-date account of a little-known state whose chronic instability is increasingly engaging the general reader"--Publisher description.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300167342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"Yemen is the dark horse of the Middle East. Every so often it enters the headlines for one alarming reason or another -- links with al-Qaeda, kidnapped Westerners, explosive population growth -- then sinks into obscurity again. But, as Victoria Clark argues in this riveting book, we ignore Yemen at our peril. The poorest state in the Arab world, it is still dominated by its tribal makeup and has become a perfect breeding ground for insurgent and terrorist movements. Clark returns to the country where she was born to discover a perilously fragile state that deserves more of our understanding and attention. On a series of visits to Yemen between 2004 and 2009, she meets politicians, influential tribesmen, oil workers and jihadists as well as ordinary Yemenis. Untangling Yemen's history before examining the country's role in both al-Qaeda and the wider jihadist movement today, Clark presents a lively, clear, and up-to-date account of a little-known state whose chronic instability is increasingly engaging the general reader"--Publisher description.
Yemen Update
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Yemen (Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Yemen (Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Undercover Muslim
Author: Theo Padnos
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1847920845
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The remarkable story of how a Westerner ventured into the heart of radical Islam in Yemen.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1847920845
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The remarkable story of how a Westerner ventured into the heart of radical Islam in Yemen.
News Letter
Author: United States. Dept. of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Strangers in Yemen
Author: David Malkiel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110710617
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Strangers in Yemen is a study of travel to Yemen in the nineteenth century by Jews, Christians and Muslims. The travelers include a missionary, artist, scientist, rabbi, merchant, adventurer and soldier. The focus is on the encounter between people of different cultures, and the chapters analyze the travelers’ accounts to elucidate how strangers and locals perceived each other, and how the experiences shaped their perceptions of themselves. Cultural encounter is among the most important challenges of our time, a time of global migration and instant communication. Today, as in the past, history provides a valuable tool for illuminating the human experience, and this scholarly work stimulates us to contemplate the challenge of cultural encounter, for it affects us all.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110710617
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Strangers in Yemen is a study of travel to Yemen in the nineteenth century by Jews, Christians and Muslims. The travelers include a missionary, artist, scientist, rabbi, merchant, adventurer and soldier. The focus is on the encounter between people of different cultures, and the chapters analyze the travelers’ accounts to elucidate how strangers and locals perceived each other, and how the experiences shaped their perceptions of themselves. Cultural encounter is among the most important challenges of our time, a time of global migration and instant communication. Today, as in the past, history provides a valuable tool for illuminating the human experience, and this scholarly work stimulates us to contemplate the challenge of cultural encounter, for it affects us all.