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Eating the Flowers of Paradise, One Man's Journey Through Ethiopia and Yemen
by Kevin Rushby
- TRAVEL NARRATIVE
- 2000
- PAPER
- 352 PAGES
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A natural and cultural history of qat, the hallucinogenic leaf chewed by the baleful in Yemen. Rushby sets out on the old qat route from Harar to Djibouti, the Red Sea and celebrated San'a in this tale of adventure. Rushby is a fine writer, communicating the appeal, history and legend of the North African equivalent of tobacco.
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