Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Tim Mackintosh-Smith is an Arabist, traveller, award-winning writer and lecturer. For almost thirty years his home has been the Yemeni capital San'a where he lives on the ruin-mound of the ancient Sabaean city, next to the donkey market...Tim presented a major BBC documentary series, Travels with a Tangerine, recounting his experiences walking in the footsteps of fourteenth century traveller Ibn Batuttah...'Mackintosh-Smith has all the assets a travel writer needs: erudition, rather subversive good humour and a descriptive eye capable of sketching complex detail in a few telling lines' Daily Telegraph