Passenger to Teheran

by Sackville-West, Vita; Nicolson, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9781845113438
• ISBN10: 1845113438
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-15
• Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks

Summary

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 Teheranis a classic work, revealing the lesser-known side of one of the twentieth century's most luminous authors.

Author Biography

Vita Sackville-West, the celebrated writer and Bloomsbury member, was a prolific poet and author. Her most famous works include The Edwardians, All Passion Spent and the classic poem The Land which won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. With her husband she created the magnificent and hugely influential gardens at their home, Sissinghurst Castle. In 1946 she was made a Companion of Honour for her services to literature. She died in 1962.

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Acknowledgements

""Youth in Feeling""

A Blessed Boy 1840-1862

Venus Discovered 1862-1866

Vita Nova 1866-1869

""What Have We Done to Death?"" 1870-1875

'Carnival of Folly and Founding of the Stud 1875-1878

The Children of Shem 1877-1880

""Manhood in Battle""

Egypt, Arise! 1880-1882

Wind and Whirlwind, 1882

A Passage Through India 1883-1884

""Am I a Tory Democrat"" 1884-1885

A New Pilgrimage 1886-1887

""Balfour's Criminal"" 1887

In Chains for Ireland 1

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