Yemen has been a magnet to travellers for thousands of years, from the days of its reputed wealth through the trade of frankincense and myrrh and because of its strategic position on the southwest corner of the Arabian Peninsula - linking east and west.

A debt of gratitude is owed to the foreign travellers and artists for their engravings, gathered here for the first time - a corpus of work that gives us invaluable knowledge of Yemen through their creative achievements and which will delight and inspire today's travellers to Yemen.

Of appeal to the general reader and to researchers.

Sister volume to Ethiopia Engraved (by Richard Pankhurst and Leila Ingrams).

Over 600 engravings, paintings and sketches from 1690 to 1900.

Detailed images of scenery, historic towns and unique architecture, and portraits of the people and costumes of Yemen in all their variety.


Foreword by Professor Saleh Ali Bassurah, Minister for Higher Education and Scientific Research, 2006

Preface by Richard Pankhurst, Professor of Ethiopian Studies, Institute Of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa

Chapters: Landscape & Architecture; Sana'a & Taiz; Aden & Lahej; The People; Hadhramaut; The Tihama; The Islands; The Flora & Fauna; The Travellers & Artists; Glossary; Key to Author Abbreviations.