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Revolutionary Ride
Revolutionary Ride: On the Road to Shiraz, the Heart of Iran | Lois Pryce
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In 2011, at the height of tension between the British and Iranian governments, travel writer Lois Pryce found a note left on her motorcycle outside the Iranian Embassy in London: ... 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 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.
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Can‘t recommend this enough. Is all you know about Iran from the news and ancient history? Read this and find out what the people are like by following a lady motorcyclist journeying across the country in 2012. I want to go there now - although as a journalist for the BBC in my day job that‘s probably a very Bad Idea.

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Took this off the shelf tonight as my panic to finish #readharder 2017 continues. It‘s really good so far, very readable- fingers crossed it stays that way because I‘ve only got 3 days to go and this is not my last category...

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Has anyone read this? The premise sounds interesting and it's on sale via iBooks. Thoughts?

Thanks!