Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Tim Mackintosh-Smith (b.1961) is a British, Yemen-based author.

Mackintosh-Smith lives in an ancient tower house off the "Market of the Cows" in the old city of San'a Yemen. He is the author of the Thomas Cook/"Daily Telegraph" prize winning "Yemen: Travels in Dictionaryland" (1997), and more recently the first two volumes of his journeys in "the footnotes" of Ibn Batutah; "Travels with A Tangerine" (2001)and "The Hall of a Thousand Columns" (2005).

He has written widely on subjects as broad as the collection of frankincense, the stories of M.R. James and the history of umbrellas. He has featured in a documentary film "The English Sheik and the Yemeni Gentleman", and is presenting a BBC documentary series recreating the experience of tracing Ibn Battuta's fourteenth century travels into the present day. Despite his refuge in a distant corner of Arabia, Tim has succeeded in becoming celebrated among the literati of Europe and the Americas. He has a treatment for a feature film about the modern day descendants of Ibn Batutah.

Sources

* [http://www.mackintosh-smith.com Official website]


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