{"product_id":"yemen-travels-in-dictionary-land","title":"Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land","description":"In Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land Tim Mackintosh-Smith writes with an intimacy and depth of knowledge gained through thirteen 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.\nAccompanied by etchings drawn from the life by Martin Yeoman, Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land is an Arabian Grand Tour, a book in which every page is dashed - like the land it describes - with the marvellous.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0719556228\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0719556228.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:MacKintosh-Smith, Tim\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43420081324093,"sku":"BVV.0719556228.A","price":15.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0719556228-0.jpg?v=1785711347","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/yemen-travels-in-dictionary-land","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}