In the High Yemen

Hugh Scott

Published by John Murray, London, 1947

About this Item

SECOND EDITION, 8vo, xx, 260 pp, 100 photographs by the Author and E.B. Britton, 4 maps, 8 figures, original cloth, spine slightly faded, text very clean, in good condition, Ever since Niebuhr's remarkable scientific expedition to the Yemen in 1762-63, it has been recognized that to the biologist South-West Arabia holds a geographical position of great importance for questions relating to plant and animal distribution. For its varied and still largely unexplored confines, ranging from mountainous high altitudes with temperate conditions and abundant rain, to the tropical heat of the lower levels and coastal regions, are the meeting place and areas of overlap of the three great biogeographical regions : that of the Northern, the Oriental and the Ethiopian. Moreover, even now, nearing two hundred years since the plant collections of Niebuhr's botanist, Forskál, were made, published and finally reached the British Museum, the region has been so little investigated owing to political difficulty of access that Dr. Scott, in his most interesting book, can write of the 600-odd plants collected on his expedition that in many cases no examples of these species from Arabia were received at the Museum from that tune until we brought home fresh material in 1938. Seller Inventory # New77

Bibliographic Details

Title: In the High Yemen

Publisher: John Murray, London

Publication Date: 1947

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 2nd Edition