{"product_id":"9781473669987","title":"Revolutionary Ride : On the Road in Search of the Real Iran","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Pryce, Lois, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 08\/03\/2018,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 304 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Nicholas Brealey Publishing,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton General Division,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Iran, Travel writing\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781473669987\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 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:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is very famous as the friendliest city in Iran, it is the city of poetry and gardens and wine!!!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYour Persian friend, Habib\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIntrigued, Lois decides to ignore the official warnings against travel (and the warnings of her friends and family) and sets 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlong 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReligious 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e*Shortlisted for the Adventure Travel Book of the Year Award*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35022396162201,"sku":"9781473669987","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781473669987.jpg?v=1602538034","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781473669987","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}