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Amazon.com Books: Yemen Travel
Yemen is justly famed as one of the world's most dramatically beautiful countries. Seen in the Yemen brings the people, architecture and landscapes of this ancient culture alive to the reader through the medium of the author's remarkable black-and-white photographs, taken in the 1970s, and here reproduced in duotone. His book is also a tribute to one of the most famous of all Arab and Asian travellers, the late Dame Freya Stark (1893-1993). In the mid-1970s, at the age of eighty-three, she made two visits to the author, who was then serving in Sana'a. Their travels together through north Yemen marked the start of a long friendship. The volume is also designed to emulate Freya Stark's earlier classic, Seen in the Hadhramaut, published by John Murray in 1938. Beginning with reminiscences of Dame Freya, the author recalls the time they spent together in Yemen, her musings on the past, and their mutual devotion to Leica cameras. He goes on to give a brief account of Yemen's history and geography, and describes his adventurous rediscovery of the remaining ancient Jewish community around Sa'dah in the far north. All this is brought alive in his extraordinary images, taken on his own wanderings and also on journeys with Dame Freya and other noted Arabian travellers such as Wilfred Thesiger and Dame Violet Dickson. The prints are introduced by a short description of those notable 1930s screw-thread Leica cameras used by so many early explorer-photographers. Yemen today, like the rest of Arabia, is undergoing rapid and inevitable change and, at the time of writing, is much in the news. This book records a time when town and country had only recently embarked on the decades of upheaval, and much was visually unchanged. The author's artistic eye imparts an unforgettable aura of romance and nostalgia to his pictures which, like Freya Stark's, will cast their spell over readers present and future.Author: Hugh Leach Hardcover: 308 pages Company: Arabian Publishing (2011-05-04) ISBN: 0955889456 List Price: $90.00 Amazon Price: $51.20 Used Price: $51.10 
In a country where goat herds roam the capital city and women rarely show their faces in public, life takes some getting used to. Everything is Possible in Yemen is the true story of one journalist's journey from college in Connecticut to traversing the lawless countryside of Yemen as an independent foreign correspondent. Sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, Heather Murdock visits refugees, child brides, rebels and average families across the country. The award-winning journalist reveals the beauty, misconceptions and contradictions of a land best known for civil unrest and housing al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Her time in the fairy-tale like nation is cut short, however, when she is arrested and detained in a Yemeni political security compound. Author: Heather Murdock Kindle Edition: 179 pages Kindle eBook Company: (2012-04-28) (2012-04-28) List Price: Amazon Price: 
"I had no idea how to find my way around this medieval city. It was getting dark. I was tired. I didn’t speak Arabic. I was a little frightened. But hadn’t I battled scorpions in the wilds of Costa Rica and prevailed? Hadn’t I survived fainting in a San José brothel? Hadn’t I once arrived in Ireland with only $10 in my pocket and made it last two weeks? Surely I could handle a walk through an unfamiliar town. So I took a breath, tightened the black scarf around my hair, and headed out to take my first solitary steps through Sana’a."-- from The Woman Who Fell From The Sky In a world fraught with suspicion between the Middle East and the West, it's hard to believe that one of the most influential newspapers in Yemen--the desperately poor, ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden, which has made has made international headlines for being a terrorist breeding ground--would be handed over to an agnostic, Campari-drinking, single woman from Manhattan who had never set foot in the Middle East. Yet this is exactly what happened to journalist, Jennifer Steil. Restless in her career and her life, Jennifer, a gregarious, liberal New Yorker, initially accepts a short-term opportunity in 2006 to teach a journalism class to the staff of The Yemen Observer in Sana'a, the beautiful, ancient, and very conservative capital of Yemen. Seduced by the eager reporters and the challenging prospect of teaching a free speech model of journalism there, she extends her stay to a year as the paper's editor-in-chief. But she is quickly confronted with the realities of Yemen--and their surprising advantages. In teaching the basics of fair and balanced journalism to a staff that included plagiarists and polemicists, she falls in love with her career again. In confronting the blatant mistreatment and strict governance of women by their male counterparts, she learns to appreciate the strength of Arab women in the workplace. And in forging surprisingly deep friendships with women and men whose traditions and beliefs are in total opposition to her own, she learns a cultural appreciation she never could have predicted. What’s more, she just so happens to meet the love of her life. With exuberance and bravery, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky offers a rare, intimate, and often surprising look at the role of the media in Muslim culture and a fascinating cultural tour of Yemen, one of the most enigmatic countries in the world. Author: Jennifer Steil Hardcover: 336 pages Company: Broadway (2010-05-11) (2010-05-11) ISBN: 0767930509 List Price: $26.00 Amazon Price: $5.79 Used Price: $2.21 
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.Author: E Locken Paperback: 192 pages Company: lulu.com (2009-06-21) ISBN: 0557080495 List Price: $20.95 Amazon Price: $20.95 
Yemen is shrugging off its image of being a country with a security issue, to reveal its stunning landscape and fascinating culture – justifiably worth visiting by professional archaeologists, historians, the business traveller, or those making the most of Yemen’s adventure sports, such as hiking and scuba-diving. All will gain thrills treading on ground which is the site of the Sabaean dynasty, the era of the fabled Queen of Sheba. Yemen is undoubtedly the choice of those interested in digging deeper into regional culture. Author: Daniel McLaughlin Paperback: 256 pages Company: Bradt Travel Guides (2008-02-12) ISBN: 1841622125 List Price: $25.99 Amazon Price: $2.98 Used Price: $2.98 Scott gives a fascinating account of an expedition that took place in 1937 to the Yemen when that country was closed to Europeans by Order of the Imam. Ostensibly a scientific expedition, it posesses great political, cultural, and anthropological interest. The tense negotiations which preceeded the expedition and its ultimate success assured that this work remains perhaps the most important account ever written of that forbidding land that occupies the southern half of the Arabian shore. Author: Scott, Hugh Scott Hardcover: 280 pages Company: Routledge (2002-09-15) ISBN: 0710307861 List Price: $300.00 Amazon Price: $199.18 Used Price: $199.29 
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. 
In this work, the author describes his journey through Yemen, portraying hyrax hunters and dhow skippers, a noseless regicide, a sword-wielding tyrant with a passion for Heinz Russian salad, as well as examining the extraordinary history of the ordinary Yemenis.Author: Tim MacKintosh-Smith Hardcover: 280 pages Company: Trafalgar Square (1998-07) ISBN: 0719556228 List Price: $40.00 Amazon Price: $50.00 Used Price: $4.23 
In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky boat bound for a country that he'd never planned to visit.As he tells of the turbulent seas that stranded him on the island and of his efforts to retrieve his buried journals when he returned to Yemen ten years later, Hansen enthralls us with a portrait -- uncannily sympathetic and wildly offbeat -- of this forgotten corner of the Middle East. With a host of extraordinary characters from his guide, Mohammed, ever on the lookout for one more sheep to squeeze into the back seat of his car, to madcap expatriates and Eritrean gun runners- and with landscapes that include cities of dreamlike architectural splendor, endless sand dunes, and terrifying mountain passes, Hansen reveals the indelible allure of a land steeped in custom, conflicts old and new, and uncommon beauty. Author: Eric Hansen Paperback: 272 pages Company: Vintage (1992-02-04) (1992-02-04) ISBN: 067973855X List Price: $16.00 Amazon Price: $9.53 Used Price: $0.01 
A collection of photographs which capture the essence of Yemen; from the textured terraces of Mahwit and Tawilla, to the labyrinth of lanes in the capital, Sanaa; from the bustling market life of the Tihama people, to the tranquility of marine life on Uqban Island in the Red Sea.Author: Scott Kennedy, Nora Kennedy Paperback: 144 pages Illustrated Company: Peeters Publishers (1998-08) ISBN: 1860630308 List Price: Amazon Price: Used Price: $29.97 Amazon.com KindleStore: Yemen Travel
As every Yemeni knows:You can fish for samak but not for salmon. The Yemeni Tourist Board helpfully announced to the world that, despite Paul Torday’s wonderful dupe, there are no salmon in Yemen. This book explains why. And why not. This is a pictorial companion to picturesque Yemen containing over 60 photographs. Author: Andrew Musgrave Kindle Edition: Kindle eBook Company: (2012-05-16) (2012-05-16) List Price: Amazon Price: 
"I had no idea how to find my way around this medieval city. It was getting dark. I was tired. I didn’t speak Arabic. I was a little frightened. But hadn’t I battled scorpions in the wilds of Costa Rica and prevailed? Hadn’t I survived fainting in a San José brothel? Hadn’t I once arrived in Ireland with only $10 in my pocket and made it last two weeks? Surely I could handle a walk through an unfamiliar town. So I took a breath, tightened the black scarf around my hair, and headed out to take my first solitary steps through Sana’a."-- from The Woman Who Fell From The Sky In a world fraught with suspicion between the Middle East and the West, it's hard to believe that one of the most influential newspapers in Yemen--the desperately poor, ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden, which has made has made international headlines for being a terrorist breeding ground--would be handed over to an agnostic, Campari-drinking, single woman from Manhattan who had never set foot in the Middle East. Yet this is exactly what happened to journalist, Jennifer Steil. Restless in her career and her life, Jennifer, a gregarious, liberal New Yorker, initially accepts a short-term opportunity in 2006 to teach a journalism class to the staff of The Yemen Observer in Sana'a, the beautiful, ancient, and very conservative capital of Yemen. Seduced by the eager reporters and the challenging prospect of teaching a free speech model of journalism there, she extends her stay to a year as the paper's editor-in-chief. But she is quickly confronted with the realities of Yemen--and their surprising advantages. In teaching the basics of fair and balanced journalism to a staff that included plagiarists and polemicists, she falls in love with her career again. In confronting the blatant mistreatment and strict governance of women by their male counterparts, she learns to appreciate the strength of Arab women in the workplace. And in forging surprisingly deep friendships with women and men whose traditions and beliefs are in total opposition to her own, she learns a cultural appreciation she never could have predicted. What’s more, she just so happens to meet the love of her life. With exuberance and bravery, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky offers a rare, intimate, and often surprising look at the role of the media in Muslim culture and a fascinating cultural tour of Yemen, one of the most enigmatic countries in the world. From the Hardcover edition. Author: Jennifer Steil Kindle Edition: 354 pages Kindle eBook Company: Broadway (2010-05-04) (2010-05-11) List Price: $14.00 Amazon Price: 
After the success of his first ten travel stories in Kindle, Satterfield has added fifteen more stories from his travels around the world. He starts off with his curmudgeonly take on the kind of people he likes to travel with, and those he does not. This essay is a good starting place for the collection, and a must-read for anyone who travels with someone else.Author: Archie Satterfield Kindle Edition: 63 pages Kindle eBook Company: (2010-02-18) (2010-02-18) List Price: $8.00 Amazon Price: 
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. Author: Victoria Clark Kindle Edition: 328 pages Kindle eBook Company: Yale University Press (2010-02-18) (2010-03-10) List Price: $20.00 Amazon Price:
In a country where goat herds roam the capital city and women rarely show their faces in public, life takes some getting used to. Everything is Possible in Yemen is the true story of one journalist's journey from college in Connecticut to traversing the lawless countryside of Yemen as an independent foreign correspondent. Sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, Heather Murdock visits refugees, child brides, rebels and average families across the country. The award-winning journalist reveals the beauty, misconceptions and contradictions of a land best known for civil unrest and housing al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Her time in the fairy-tale like nation is cut short, however, when she is arrested and detained in a Yemeni political security compound. Author: Heather Murdock Kindle Edition: 179 pages Kindle eBook Company: (2012-04-28) (2012-04-28) List Price: Amazon Price: 
Looking for a life of adventure after graduating from the medical school of the American University of Beirut, Tareq (not his real name), a young American doctor, decides to journey to Yemen to work there for the government on a one-year contract in its hospital in Sana'a, the capital. He leaves behind a comfortable life in Lebanon and must now adjust to the harsh and primitive life in Yemen. While he is there, the young doctor is given insight to the Imam's, the religious ruler of Yemen, absolute bloodthirsty power, through treachery, intimidation, and brutality, and he describes stories of tribal uprisings, beheadings, drug addiction, child marriages, and other true horror stories.Sojourn in a Dreadful Land is a fascinating and shocking tale about life and hardship in Yemen in the 1950s. The young American doctor' s idea of adventure slowly turns into a nightmare as he records his life in this journal. Author: Hatem El-Khalidi Kindle Edition: 84 pages Kindle eBook Company: Dorrance Publishing Co. Inc. (2011-11-28) (2011-11-28) List Price: Amazon Price: 
Take One Three Times A Day, After Meals is a book of stories that chronicle the everyday encounters of a small group of medical missionaries who accepted the Yemeni Government’s invitation to run a hospital in the town of Rada’a in the south east of the country. Yemen, known by the Romans as Arabia Felix and in earlier times as the homeland of Bilqis, Queen of Sheba, has been at the centre of the lucrative spice routes which have linked Africa, Asia and the Middle East since ancient times. In the latter part of the 20th century the Yemen Arab Republic opened its doors to the modern world. Jim Wilson worked there between 1976-1982 and his memoir is a treasure trove of information about the customs, superstitions and dogged tenacity of the people of this little known country. Take One Three Times A Day, After Meals was written to encourage readers to see our shared world in a new and positive light and to be inspired to work with ordinary people to bring greater harmony into our often distrustful and unsettled world. Most of all, Jim’s memoir is an opportunity to share the laughter and the tears, challenges and surprises of everyday life in a beautiful country. Author: Jim Wilson Kindle Edition: 224 pages Kindle eBook Company: Matador (2011-12-07) (2011-12-07) List Price: Amazon Price: 
Un séjour au Yémen qui se termine par une prise d'otages... avant une initiation spirtuelle qui poussera un des protagonistes à ne plus vouloir repartir.Author: Gérard Guilbert Kindle Edition: 106 pages Kindle eBook Company: (2012-02-27) (2012-02-27) List Price: Amazon Price: 
When author Peter Mortimer was commissioned to write a play about a little-known riot between Yemeni and British seamen at Mill Dam, South Shields, in 1930, he decided to take the long trip to Yemen itself in search of inspiration. Undeterred by post-11 September government warnings against visiting this 'highly dangerous' area, Mortimer set off and found an extraordinary and surprisingly Anglophile country.Cool for Qat documents this remarkable journey, during which Mortimer pieces together how the riots of 1930 arose and considers their relevance to Western attitudes towards Muslims today. He meets many remarkable characters along the way and immerses himself in the national custom of chewing the narcotic qat leaf. After visiting the ex-British Protectorate of Aden - through which many of the seamen passed en route to Britain - Mortimer travels on to San'a and then Tai'iz. It is while visiting the isolated mountain villages surrounding this city that Mortimer finally meets men who worked in South Shields some 50 years ago. Carrying a battered book with images of Yemenis living in the North-east in the '30s from home to home, trying to jog distant memories, he realises his visit has taken on a new purpose - bringing a small part of the country's history back to where it belongs. Back in the UK, Mortimer's investigations into the 1930 riot reveal a society with many striking similarities to current times. Then, as now, Muslim immigrants were treated as scapegoats for all manner of ills, tabloid newspapers drummed up prejudice and hatred, and the powers that be often used fear and racial mistrust to disguise their own economic failings. Cool for Qat questions just how 'civilised' the Western world - and Britain in particular - is in comparison to Yemen. It is a touching, thought-provoking and at times humorous document of one man's travels through a country about which little is known in the West.Author: Peter Mortimer Kindle Edition: 240 pages Kindle eBook Company: Mainstream Digital (2012-02-24) (2012-02-24) List Price: $15.82 Amazon Price: 
Dive into the Middle East through a whole new perspective . . . the Midwest! Laugh and learn the good stuff your teachers never taught you about the Middle East.Author: David Cross Kindle Edition: 112 pages Kindle eBook Company: Xulon Press (2006-11-01) (2006-11-01) List Price: $8.99 Amazon Price: Amazon.com DVD: Yemen Travel
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This lyrical film introduces us to Bader Ben Hirsi, a British-born Yemeni living in London after his parents exile from Yemen. Bader returns to Yemen to re-discover his country, its people and traditions. Under the guiding hand of eccentric Englishman Tim Makintosh-Smith, who has been living as a Yemeni in the ancient city of Sana'a for the past 16 years, Ben Hirsi travels throughout his ancestral homeland. Exquisitely filmed by award-winning cinematographer Koutaiba Al Janabi, The English Sheik and the Yemeni Gentleman chronicles their interaction and emerging friendship as they explore the beautiful Yemen countryside. DVD Features: Director: Bader Ben Hirsi DVD: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled Company: Arab Film Distribution (2010-11-02) List Price: $24.99 Amazon Price: $19.13 Used Price: $17.69 |
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