This is a book of b&w photos and text by an Englishman who spent most of his 36-year career as a soldier and diplomat in the Middle East and has spent years since his retirement studying
Islam, leading exhibitions, and writing histories. He enjoyed a long friendship with Dame Freya Stark (1893-1993)--inveterate traveler, photographer, and author--and the two traveled together
to north Yemen in the mid-1970s, when she was 83. The country is currently in upheaval, making this documentation of people and places particularly poignant. Distribution in North America is by
the David Brown Book Co. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
