{"product_id":"revolutionary-ride-lois-pryce-9781473669987","title":"Revolutionary Ride: On the Road in Search of the Real Iran","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A proper travelogue - a joyful, moving and stereotype-busting ride.\" - \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic Traveller\u003c\/i\u003e, Book of the Year\u003c\/b\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: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\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. It is very famous as the friendliest city in Iran, it is the city of poetry and gardens and wine!!!\u003cbr\u003eYour Persian friend, \u003cbr\u003eHabib\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Ride\u003c\/i\u003e 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 the true story of real contemporary Iran.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lois Pryce\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1473669987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781473669987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicholas Brealey Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Lois Pryce","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935501254911,"sku":"9781473669987","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ef431bfc-afb8-46e2-9633-de45ec750bc8.jpg?v=1681420164","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/revolutionary-ride-lois-pryce-9781473669987","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}