- Location(s): Yemen
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): late 20th century
Arguably the most fascinating and least understood country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attracting comment that ranges from the superficial to the wildly fantastic. A country long regarded by classical geographers as a fabulous land...
Yemen: Travels In Dictionary Land
- Location(s): Yemen
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1990s
In this work, the author describes his journey through Yemen, portraying hyrax hunters and dhow skippers, a noseless regicide, a sword-wielding tyrant with a passion for Heinz Russian salad, as well as examining the extraordinary history of the ordinary...
Yes, (Saudi) Minister! a Life in Administration
- Location(s): Saudi Arabia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s /1980s
Born into a leading merchant family in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, Dr Algosaibi not only experienced but, as a government minister, played a leading part in the Kingdom’s rapid modernisation during the 1970s and 1980s. In this administrative autobiography,...
- Location(s): East Village, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a beautiful aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card. There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City....
- Location(s): Canada
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
In an account of the author’s involuntary and highly entertaining encounters with the wildlife in her backyard she lets the reader in on the funny characters of the wild. Comical situations dominate the stories Bea W Meyer tells about...