Yemen - The Drafting Table

"A Winter in Arabia"

This post is a review of the book A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen by Dame Freya Stark. It was published in 1940 and describes a months-long visit she made to the Hadhramaut region of Yemen, a British protectorate at the time.

Yemen

In 2012, I had the opportunity to travel to Yemen for my job (a couple of my photos from that trip are at the end of this post). Since then, that country has held a special interest for me. So one time when I

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An Academic Look at the Hydraulic Hypothesis

As promised in my review of Water: the Epic Struggle by Steven Solomon, here is a more scholarly look at the hydraulic hypothesis. As I wrote before, "The hydraulic hypothesis says that large-scale irrigation works that supported the land-based empires of the ancient