Sheba: Through the Desert in Search of the Legendary Queen Hardcover - 2001
by Clapp, Nicholas
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
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Details
- Title Sheba: Through the Desert in Search of the Legendary Queen
- Author Clapp, Nicholas
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Advance Copy
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston
- Date 2001-04-24
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # Alibris0008674
- ISBN 9780395952832 / 0395952832
- Weight 1.31 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 8.62 x 6 x 1.25 in (21.89 x 15.24 x 3.18 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Middle East - Description and travel, Sheba
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00054123
- Dewey Decimal Code 939.4
Summary
It's an eventful journey. In Israel, he learns of a living queen of Sheba -- a pilgrim suffering from "Jerusalem Syndrome" -- and in Syria he tracks down the queen's tomb, as described in the Arabian Nights. Clapp investigates the Ethiopian shrine where Menelik, said to be the son of Solomon and the mysterious queen, may have hidden the Ark of the Covenant. Then the "worst train in the world" (according to the conductor) takes Clapp to the Red Sea, where he sets sail for Yemen in an ancient dhow and comes perilously close to being shipwrecked.
As in his search for the lost city of Ubar, Clapp uses satellite images, this time to track an ancient caravan route that leads to the queen's winter capital in present-day Yemen. The quest is bolstered by new carbon-14 datings and by the discovery of an Arabian Stonehenge in the sands of the Rub' al-Khali. Finally, at the romantic and haunting ruins of Sirwah, the pieces of the queen of Sheba puzzle fall into place.