Ten years after being shipwrecked on a remote island off Yemen, Eric Hansen returned to search for the journals he had hastily buried during his rescue by a boat-load of smugglers blown off course. It was an unlikely mission, in an unlikely country, compounded by the island’s being in a military zone. For, as Hansen […]
Professor Dresch combines ethnography with history to describe the tribal system over the last thousand years, and examines the values the tribal people themselves bring to the contemporary world of nation states. Drawing heavily on local histories and unpublished documents, as well as on three years’ field work, he discusses the place of these tribes […]
For the very first time, The War That Never Was tells the fascinating story of a secret war fought by British mercenaries in the Yemen in the early 1960s. In a covert operation organised over whisky and sodas in the clubs of Chelsea and Mayfair, a group of former SAS officers – led by the […]
Our ideas of the Arabian Peninusula have been hijacked: by images of the desert, by oil, by the Gulf War. But there is another Arabia. For the Classical geographers Yemen was a fabulous land where flying serpents guarded sacred incense groves. Medieval Arab visitors told of disappearing islands and menstruating mountains. Vita Sackville-West found Aden […]
The information in this edition reflects the changed conditions in Yemen since the end of the 1994 civil war. It includes new and revised maps of the provinces, cities and town centres, and provides practical advice on getting around and where to stay for all budgets. It features advice on health and safe travel and […]
REFERENCE ONLY TITLE The sophisticated traveller is fast awakening to the glories and treasures of Yemen, the land of the half-mythic Queen of Sheba and the ‘Arabia Felix’ coveted by ancient Rome. Yet the glories and treasures of Yemen are as much contemporary as they are ancient and historic in the spectacular architecture of its […]
REFERENCE TITLE ONLY The islands of Socotra lie some 190 nautical miles off the southern coast of Yemen, in the Gulf of Aden. Their relative isolation merely hints at their extraordinary foreignness. Like a lesser Galapagos, these islands boast flora and fauna found nowhere else on Earth. Moreover, the Socotran people have their own language […]