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Passenger to Teheran (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) Paperback – April 15, 2007

by Vita Sackville-West (Author), Nigel Nicolson (Introduction)

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In 1926 Vita Sackville-West travelled to Iran to visit her husband, Harold Nicolson, who was serving as a diplomat in Teheran. Her route was deliberately slow-paced - she stopped in Egypt, where she sailed up the Nile to Luxor; and India, where she visited New Delhi and Agra before sailing across the Persian Gulf to Iraq and on through bandit-infested mountains to Teheran. She returned to England in an equally circuitous manner and despite travelling under dangerous circumstances, through communist Russia and Poland in the midst of revolution, her humour and sense of adventure never failed. Passenger to Teheran is a classic work, revealing the lesser-known side of one of the twentieth century's most luminous authors.

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Series: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks (April 15, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1845113438
ISBN-13: 978-1845113438
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.5 x 8.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Travel in the Golden Age with V. Sackville-West

By A Customer on March 6, 1997

Format: Paperback

If you are fascinated by English travelers accounts of exotic journeys undertaken in the Golden age of Travel, then V. Sackville-West's record of her journey by rail and road from London to Iran in the 1920s will delight you. Her sensibility as a novelist and poet enrich this book of impressions and her strong personality shines through every comment on her adventures. Ms. West follows a meandering and leisurely land route to the Near East from England and, later, returns via Mother Russia, using all means available at the time: automobile, train, donkey, camel, and her own two feet. She braves bandits in the mountain passes of Iran; street beggars in Baghdad, English travelers who dismay and bore her at every turn. She conveys the pageantry of Iranian royalty during a Coronation; surveys the ancient landscape and ruins of Persian gardens on her tramps through the mountainsides of Tehran. She takes the reader on as a fellow passenger and you feel at once you are in the company of an exceptional, if eccentric, traveling companion. After reading this book, you would gladly follow her anywhere

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In Love With Travel

By nancy l. galloway on October 25, 2000

Format: Hardcover

For anyone who loves to travel to strange and distant lands - or wishes they could - this may be the quintessential travel book. Vita Sackville-West was a great friend of Virginia Woolf, and shared her gift for superb storytelling as well as her love of the language.
From the opening page, where she describes and beckons to fellow travelers, through the wild ride across the Yemeni sands and the drive over the mountains of Persia, the reader is enthralled.
She opens the door to travel in the 'teens, when a journey like this was truly arduous - and yet you are quite certain she always looked fabulous and was witty - at least after she'd had her tea.
It is a great regret that this book is out of print, as it is such a treasure.

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beautifully written

By sophia on October 31, 2013

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This book by a member of the bloomsbury group....not only vividly written but surprised me with the willingness of this lady to undergo difficult (and understated adventurous) conditions to do the travel she wants. To be read not only as a travel book but as a book which opens a door to the past conditions and to be read as an fine example of beautiful writing.

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Vita Sackville-West is a most amazing writer. I did not know her writing before

By Les on October 12, 2014

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Vita Sackville-West is a most amazing writer. I did not know her writing before. A Combination her skill and imagination with a book about travel in the 1920's and one has a most entertaining read.