HANSEN, ERIC - Motoring with Mohammed Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0395483476; Binding is clean, sound and unworn. Contents are almost as new, with no writing or other entries on the text. DJ's spine is very slightly faded but the lettering is perfectly clear, otherwise DJ is amost as new, clean and unworn, with printed price. ; First Printing of the FIRST EDITION, 1991. 8-1/2" Tall, XII + 240pp. Light brown boards, medium blue cloth spine, bright gold spine lettering. Map endpapers. TRAVEL ADVENTURE. Hansen returned to Yemen to try to recover his notebooks of a previous trip which had been left behind twelve years earlier due to being shipwrecked. "Though each effort to retrieve the diaries is thwarted, Hansen's initial frustration gives way to a growing captivation by the Yemeni people and their history. A rich tapestry of ancient customs, contemporary politics, and dazzling landscapes is described in this compelling search for buried meaning in distant places. " ... Bibliography. Two pages of maps.. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .