In Your Garden
by Vita Sackville-West | 
All Passion Spent
by Vita Sackville-West | 
The Garden
by Vita Sackville-West | 
A Joy of Gardening
by Vita Sackville-West | 
The Edwardians
by Vita Sackville-West | 
The Land
by Vita Sackville-West | 
Country Notes
by Vita Sackville-West | 
Country Notes in Wartime
by Vita Sackville-West | 
Grand Canyon
by Vita Sackville-West | 
Faces
by Vita Sackville-West | 
Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi | 
Reading Lolita in Tehran
by Azar Nafisi | 
Embroideries
by Marjane Satrapi | 
Rooftops of Tehran
by Mahbod Seraji | 
All the Shah's Men
by Stephen Kinzer | 
Samarkand
by Amin Maalouf | 
Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
by Mark Bowden | 
The Blood of Flowers
by Anita Amirrezvani | 
Prisoner of Tehran
by Marina Nemat | 
Zahra's Paradise
by Amir |
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.