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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: Macmillan and co., limited Subjects: Turks Yemen Yemen (Republic) Turkey Yemen (Republic) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A year's provisions are supposed to be kept up at the fort on Shibam peak, and there is no lack of water. To occupy Menakha, without dealing with the Shibam positions, would be to risk a death-trap of shattered masonry, though Forts Hadar and Beh are the real strength of the place. Their deceptively easy scarps can be swept with the fire of Nordenfeldts and machine- guns. Menakha is naturally strong, and could be made much stronger. It is the Gibraltar of Yamen. The town itself is composed chiefly of stone towers, clustered on either side of the ridge, along whose crest are the principal buildings. The Military Hospital is at the upper end of the town, where the spur rises sharply towards Shibam; half-way down the crest are the barracks and magazine, tall, oblong buildings, cheek by jowl, that dominate the town. Tucked close under the barracks, on the western face of the ridge, are officers' quarters, and the brigade-office for the district. The road from Wasil runs up a gentle rise, past these and other buildings, turning sharply round to the right, between the Hukoomah and the Post Office, onto the crest of the spur at its lowest point. Here the mosque and ' hotel' face each other across the road which, still curving to the right, descends southwards athwart the other face of the ridge to quarter the vast easterly spurs of Shibam, after making a hairpin curve round Menakha. The town owes its striking appearance more to its position than any noteworthy architecture. Government buildings...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780548053102
  • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 557 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0548053103
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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