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100 1 _aHarris, Walter,
_d1866-1933
245 1 2 _aA journey through the Yemen and some general remarks upon that country
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aIllustrated from sketches and photographs taken by the author.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-08-28
508 _aWebRover, Tim Lindell, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"A journey through the Yemen and some general remarks upon that country" by Harris is a travelogue and historical account written in the late 19th century. It blends a clear survey of Yemen’s geography, history, and religious currents with an illustrated first-hand journey from Aden into the interior during Ottoman rule and local unrest. The opening of this work sets out its aims and offers a concise primer on Yemen: uncertain inland boundaries, the contrast between the arid Teháma plains and the fertile, terraced Jibál highlands, climate and crops (notably coffee), and key ports, islands, towns, and tribes. It outlines native provincial divisions and the practical limits of Ottoman control, then surveys pre-Islamic civilisations (Minæan and Sabæan), the Marib dam and the Queen of Sheba, Abyssinian and Persian domination, the advent of Islam, and early pretenders. The account moves briskly through later dynasties, European trading forays, the first Ottoman occupation, the rise of the Qasimi Imams, Wahhabi incursions, and 19th-century Egyptian and Ottoman interventions that left the Imamate weakened and the coast in Turkish hands. It closes this opening with a brief defense of Islam against Western misconceptions, foreshadowing a deeper look at religious influences. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cEdinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1893
653 _aYemen (Republic) -- Description and travel
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/journeythroughye00harruoft
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76757
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