Harris opens with a survey of the Yemen’s history before and after Islam and of the rebellion then raging against Ottoman rule. He then sets out from Aden by Lahej into the mountains, describing camel caravans, cold dawns by mimosa fires, bare rocky valleys and the towns, tribes and officials he met on a hazardous journey.
A vivid travel narrative of southern Arabia in the 1890s by the famous Times correspondent in Morocco. Download the free EPUB.