03220cam a2200373 4500 530673366 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780547416250 0547416253 B003K16P50 Amazon f46e523e-f3b1-4fbf-b3a4-797a3169b545 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 574149 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Torday Paul. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen [Libby] : A Novel. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. Humorous. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 630kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:<p><b>An unassuming scientist takes an unbelievable adventure in the Middle East in this "extraordinary" novel—the inspiration for the major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor (<i>The Guardian</i>).</b><br /> <br /> Dr. Alfred Jones lives a quiet, predictable life. He works as a civil servant for the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence in London; his wife, Mary, is a determined, no-nonsense financier; he has simple routines and unassuming ambitions. Then he meets Muhammad bin Zaidi bani Tihama, a Yemeni sheikh with money to spend and a fantastic—and ludicrous—dream of bringing the sport of salmon fishing to his home country.<br /> <br /> Suddenly, Dr. Jones is swept up in an outrageous plot to attempt the impossible, persuaded by both the sheikh himself and power-hungry members of the British government who want nothing more than to spend the sheikh's considerable wealth. But somewhere amid the bureaucratic spin and Yemeni tall tales, Dr. Jones finds himself thinking bigger, bolder, and more impossibly than he ever has before.<br /> <br /> Told through letters, emails, interview transcripts, newspaper articles, and personal journal entries, <i>Salmon Fishing in the Yemen</i> is "a triumph" that both takes aim at institutional absurdity and gives loving support to the ideas of hopes, dreams, and accomplishing the impossible (<i>The Guardian</i>).</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/F46/E52/3E/SalmonFishingintheYemen9780547416250.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F46E523E-F3B1-4FBF-B3A4-797A3169B545&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/F46/E52/3E/SalmonFishingintheYemen9780547416250.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F46E523E-F3B1-4FBF-B3A4-797A3169B545&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/F46/E52/3E/SalmonFishingintheYemen9780547416250.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F46E523E-F3B1-4FBF-B3A4-797A3169B545&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)