Tim Mackintosh-Smith studied classical Arabic at Oxford. At the age of twenty-one, like Ibn Battutah, he headed east for the real Arabia. His first book, Yemen: The Unknown Arabia, won the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award and was a New York Times Notable Book. Martin Yeoman is a painter, draughtsman, sculptor, and etcher whose work can be found in a number of notable British collections, including those of HM the Queen and HRH the Prince Wales.
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--The New Republic "Intoxicating, dazzlingly erudite, yet full
of gentle wit and informed by its author's profound knowledge of
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