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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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Description and travel, Travel, Journeys, Yemen, Voyages and travels, New York Times reviewed, Descriptions et voyagesPeople
Eric HansenPlaces
Yemen, Yemen (Republic), Red SeaTimes
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Motoring with Mohammed: journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea
1992, Vintage Books, Houghton Mifflin
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Motoring with Mohammed: journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea
1991, Houghton Mifflin
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Motoring with Mohammed: journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea
1991, Methuen
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-240).
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