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Revolutionary Ride

Revolutionary Ride 1

On the Road in Search of the Real Iran

by Lois Pryce
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Publication Date: 08/09/2020
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Adventurer Lois Pryce ignores all warnings and embarks on a 3,000- mile journey across Iran by motorcycle (a country where Iranian women aren't allowed to ride motorbikes), discovering what real life is like for people there today.

In 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:

... 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!!! Your Persian friend, Habib

Intrigued, 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. 

Revolutionary Ride 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 real contemporary Iran.

ISBN:
9781473669987
9781473669987
Category:
Adventure holidays
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
08-09-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x20mm
Weight:
0.23kg
Lois Pryce

Lois Pryce is a journalist and speaker and has written for the Telegraph, Independent, New York Times, CNN and the Guardian and is a contributing editor for Overland Journal.

She was named by the Telegraph as one of the 10 Great Female Travellers and is the author of two other bestselling books about her adventures by motorcycle.

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One of the most interesting and honest travelogues I’ve had the pleasure to read. Riding through the Iranian desert on a motorcycle is not the kind of thing I would ever think of to do but it would be an epic experience to do it. I now feel I have as Lois is as affable and as friendly as I hope any travel companion would be.

She questions her own beliefs about the Muslim culture and religion, her Western values, her new discoveries, the new people she meets and her sense of adventure is great. Some strange experiences and some somewhat dangerous ones mingle with moments of amazement and sheer delight.

Most of people she meets are lovely and it’s great to meet such colourful characters. There’s lots of moments of history, anecdotes and insights into her doubts and misgivings which adds to the tension of the whole journey. I found this honest and raw, and I’m impressed with this traveller’s taste for the unknown and an affinity with her surroundings.

Have since been lucky enough to meet Lois and she’s as lovely as she comes across in this book! A real explorer with a heartfelt desire to see the real country and she succeeds. The face of Iran is not one we often get to see in this way but this book really shines a light on its beauty.

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