During the early winter months of 1982, the members of the Tihāmah Expedition, under the leadership of Anderson Bakewell, carried out research in a number of disciplines in the Red Sea coastal plain area of the Yemen Arab Republic. The team included a musicologist, an artist, an ornithologist and wildlife artist, an architect, an architectural artist, an archaeologist and an ethnographer. To augment their own research papers, the members of the expedition invited other contributors to join them in helping to produce the book under review. These contributors included an historian, the directorgeneral of the Tihāmah Development Authority, an agronomist, a zoologist, two lepidopterists, an Arabist and a botanist. The book has been edited by Francine Stone, who was expedition administrative officer, as well as ethnographer.