Word: sanaa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graphic prose about the little fishing villages flattened on the edge of the Red Sea; pelicans floating like foam-patches in the nervous water; skinny brown fishermen bringing in their shallow boats, piled with the flashing, heavy silver bodies of fish. You can smell the hot breath of Sanaa, see its turbaned merchants, Jewish watchmakers, fleabitten curs, and bearded princes. Al-Yemen reproduces a life apparently contemporaneous with the events described in the New Testament, but having no connection with them. Best shot: Hodeda's ship-bristling harbor...