Yemen Engraved
Illustrations by Foreign Travellers 1690 to 1900
Published on 19. May 2006
Book
Hardback
188 pages
978-1-900988-70-4 (ISBN)
Description
Yemen has been a magnet to travelers for thousands of years, from the days of its reputed wealth through the trade of frankincense and myrrh and because of its strategic position on the southwest corner of the Arabian Peninsula - linking east and west. A debt of gratitude is owed to the foreign travelers and artists for their engravings, gathered here for the first time - a corpus of work that gives us invaluable knowledge of Yemen through their creative achievements and which will delight and inspire today's travelers to Yemen.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 301 mm
Width: 234 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
1275 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-900988-70-4 (9781900988704)
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Person
Leila Ingrams spent her early childhood in Yemen and is an inveterate visitor to the country. She has organised exhibitions at universities in England, Ireland and Wales on the history and culture of Yemen and its people and on Yemeni children's paintings. Leila is co-author of Ethiopia Engraved and co-editor of the sixteen volume work, Records of Yemen 1798-1960.