books: Dragon's blood in paradise Annabel Freyberg voyages to the end of the earth; Yemen: travels in dictionary land by Tim Mackintosh-Smith, John Murray, pounds 18

The Independent - London | April 19, 1997| | Copyright

Like many Englishmen before him, Tim Mackintosh-Smith has fallen in love with a faraway country and been tempted to express his love in print. Untypically, his acquaintance with Yemen, in the heel of Arabia, is not slight or even temporary. His home since 1982 has been a seven- storey mud town-house in Sanaa, the capital, and the depth of his experience shows.

Medieval history, pre-Islamic myth, the gossip of the marketplace, politics and personal experience have all been pressed into a rattlingly funny, learned and readable impression of a place where "the past is not another country", nor ...

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