Illustrations

Al-Hajarah, Haraz

Abdulwahhab ibn Muhammad al-Sayrafi (drypoint)

Archway, carpenters’ suq, San’a

San’a, view from the author’s house

Man cooking saltah

Qat chewer (drypoint)

Ali ibn Muhammad al-Sayrafi

Two kettles

Ruined nawbah above Wadi Dahr

Doorway in the village of Haz, Hamdan

Head of a camel

Portrait of a tribesman

Al-Hajarah in cloud

Dog resting

Figure studies

Hamud ibn Ahmad al-Qatta’

Minaret, al-Ashrafiyyah Mosque, Ta’izz

Figure studies

Prospect among the coffee mountains above al-Hadiyah, Raymah

Abdullah al-Aqil (soft-ground etching)

Doorway

The Aden Tanks

Spice suq

Cake-seller (soft-ground etching)

Lime kiln, Wadi Hadramawt

A suburb of Tarim

Grand Red Sea house, al-Hudaydah

Stonecutters, al-Mukalla

Beached sambuqs

Dragon’s blood trees, Suqutra (after a photograph by the author)

Figure studies

The metal-workers’ suq at night, San’a