- Hardcover: 155 pages
- Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd ,U.S.; illustrated edition edition (1 Jan 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1559210435
- ISBN-13: 978-1559210430
- Product Dimensions: 25.7 x 17 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,724,325 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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It's awfully good...The whole book is full of nooks and crannies, the very intimate things one says in print.'- Virginia Woolf ' Passenger to Teheranis utterly different from a returned traveller's lecture... It gives pleasure because it describes pleasure, illuminated by what Winifred Holtby called 'the lucid tranquility of her lovely prose'. She could describe a scene, a person, an emotion with enviable spontaneity, plunging her hands into the treasury of the English language as greedily as into the jewel-chests of the Shah. It is a glittering book.' - Nigel Nicolson, in his introduction to Passenger to Teheran '...we are told what Miss Sackville-West saw in Persia, but always with such an artistic touch, such an individual style, that it is the traveller who mostly holds our attention.' - Daily Telegraph 'She pursues the good, the true and the beautiful with relentless tenacity and a charming style.' - New York Times 'A glittering jewel of a book.' - Publishers Weekly 'Brilliant style...a lyrical period piece which contains passages of unquestionable beauty.' - Library Journal
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In the spring of 1926, the writer Vita Sackville-West travelled to Persia to visit her husband, Harold Nicolson, who was at the British Legation. Her journey took her through Egypt, India and Iraq and back later that year through the newly-Communist Russia and revolution-torn Poland. The route was circuitous and the pace leisurely, though not without excitement. This is her account of the journey, the descriptions of her adventures being told with characteristic humour. The introduction by her son, Nigel Nicolson, reveals many personal details of the journey which were omitted from the original edition.
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VITA Sackville-West began her book of Persian travels with the provocative statement, "There is no greater bore than the travel bore", and then, by her account of her own journey, disproves it. Read the first page
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Format:Paperback
This is a book that I had been trying to buy for sometime and I was not disappointed.
NN's introduction is helpful and set the scene to the book.
It is a different travel book written in a different world. Written by Vita in 1926 - the year Tutenkhamun's was opened. Vita's writings are insightful to the different countries she travelled through and she was also privileged to own a camera and therefore there are plenty of photos in the book when it was not generally common for everyone to take photographs.
NN's introduction is helpful and set the scene to the book.
It is a different travel book written in a different world. Written by Vita in 1926 - the year Tutenkhamun's was opened. Vita's writings are insightful to the different countries she travelled through and she was also privileged to own a camera and therefore there are plenty of photos in the book when it was not generally common for everyone to take photographs.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I wondered why this was out of print and having read almost all of it, for once I can see why. Vita Sackville-West is more concerned about little orange luggage labels and buying pet dogs than seeing any of the places she visits with an open mind. I recommend her novel 'The Edwardians' which is much closer to interesting non-fiction than this is, and Kevin Rushby for travel writing. His book 'Chasing the Mountain of Light' should not be out of print! Passenger to Tehran was overall rather a disappointment, including the tedious introduction that seems to suggest that descriptions of travel or journeys are all fairly pointless anyway.
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Travel in the Golden Age with V. Sackville-West
6 Mar 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
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
In Love With Travel
25 Oct 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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