Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea Paperback - 1992
by Eric Hansen
With these beautifully evocative and brilliantly irreverent memoirs of a shipwreck on an island in the Red Sea, and the quest ten years later for the travel journals buried there, Hansen introduces a forgotten corner of the Middle East. "Mr. Hansen is a first-rate writer".--The New Yorker.
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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.
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- Title Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea
- Author Eric Hansen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Vintage depa
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1992-02-04
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780679738558 / 067973855X
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.6 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Library of Congress subjects Yemen (Republic) - Description and travel, Hansen, Eric - Travel - Yemen
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91058001
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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