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Yemen engraved : illustrations by foreign travellers 1680 to 1903 / Leila Ingrams.
Van Pelt Library DS247.Y4 I55 2006
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ingrams, Leila.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yemen (Republic)--Pictorial works.
- Yemen (Republic).
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 188 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Stacey International, [2006]
- Summary:
- Yemen has been a magnet to travellers for thousands of years, a link between east and west. The engravings of its foreign travellers and artists are gathered here for the first time--"a corpus of work that will delight and inspire today's travellers.
- Contents:
- 1 Landscape & Architecture 27
- 2 Sana'a & Ta'izz 39
- 3 Aden & Lahej 51
- 4 The People 65
- 5 Hadhramaut 103
- 6 The Tihamah 117
- 7 The Islands 131
- 8 The Fauna & Flora 145
- 9 The Travellers & Artists 173.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1900988704
- OCLC:
- 61177485
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