![]() ![]() As he tells of the turbulent seas that stranded him on the island and of his efforts to retrieve his buried journals when he returned to Yemen ten years later, Hansen enthralls us with a portrait - uncannily sympathetic and wildly offbeat - of this forgotten corner of the Middle East. ![]() When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky boat bound for a country that hed never planned to visit. In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. ![]()
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