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Sheba, Through the Desert in Search of the Legendary Queen

Sheba, Through the Desert in Search of the Legendary Queen

by Nicholas Clapp

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 372 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

Clapp trekked across the deserts of Yemen and the grasslands of Ethiopia; braved the Strait of Tears and a Czech alchemist's tower; encountered qat-intoxicated soldiers and "Jerusalem syndrome" -- all for the sake of getting to the bottom of the myth of the Queen of Sheba.  (ETP24, $21.95)

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