Revolutionary Ride: On the Road in Search of the Real Iran [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Pryce, Lois

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ISBN 10: 1857886577 ISBN 13: 9781857886573

Casa editrice: N. Brealey Publishing, 2017

Riassunto

Adventurer Lois Pryce ignores all warnings and embarks on a 3,000- mile journey across Iran, lifting the veil on a misunderstood country. Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Adventure Travel Book of the Year Award.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Lois Pryce is a journalist and speaker and has written for the Telegraph, the Independent, the New York Times, CNN and the Guardian and is a contributing editor for Overland Journal. She was named by the Telegraph as one of the 10 Great Female Travellers and is the author of two other bestselling books about her adventures by motorcycle. ww.loisontheloose.com @LoisPryce

Dalla quarta di copertina

Dear Sir.

I have seen your motorbike and I think that you have travelled to many countries. But I wonder, have you been to my country? That is Iran. It is very beautiful and the Persian people are the most welcoming in the world. Please do not think of what has happened here and in Tehran. These are our governments, not the Iranian people. WE ARE NOT TERRORISTS! I wish that you will visit Iran so you will see for yourself about my country. WE ARE NOT TERRORISTS!!! Please come to my city, Shiraz. It is very famous as the friendliest city in Iran, it is the city of poetry and gardens and wine!!!

Your Persian friend,
Habib

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

In 2011, at the height of tension between the British and Iranian governments, travel writer Lois Pryce found a note from an unknown Persian man left on her motorcycle outside the Iranian Embassy in London, asking that she journey to his hometown to find out what Iran is really like.

Intrigued, Lois decides to ignore the official warnings against travel (and the warnings of her friends and family) and set off alone on a 3,000 mile ride from Tabriz to Shiraz, to try to uncover the heart of this most complex and incongruous country. Along the way, she meets carpet sellers and drug addicts, war veterans and housewives, doctors and teachers - people living ordinary lives under the rule of an extraordinarily strict Islamic government.

Revolutionary Ride is the story of a people and a country. Religious and hedonistic, practical and poetic, modern and rooted in tradition - and with a wild sense of humour and appreciation of beauty despite the comparative lack of freedom - this is real contemporary Iran.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: N. Brealey Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1857886577
• ISBN 13: 9781857886573
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile