Passenger to Teheran (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) - Softcover

Sackville-West, Vita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845113438 ISBN 13: 9781845113438

Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2007

Synopsis

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

About this title

Book Description:

Bloomsbury Group's award-winning novelist, poet, and friend & lover to Virginia Woolf, Sackville-West visited Iran in the 20s, writing these incredible travel books.

About the Author:

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. Nigel Nicolson is the son of Vita Sack-West & Harold Nicolson. His career includes being an Historian and a proflific author.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1845113438
• ISBN 13: 9781845113438
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160