| Description |
v, 265 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
When Jamie Maslin decides to backpack the entire length of the Silk Road, he decides to travel first and plan later. Then, unexpectedly stranded in a country he's only read about in newspapers, he decides to make the best of it -- but wonders whether he'll make it out alive. Maslin finds himself suddenly plunged into a subversive, contradictory world of Iranian subculture, where he is embraced by locals who are more than happy to show him the true Iran as they see it -- the one where unmarried men and women mingle in Western clothes at secret parties, where alcohol (the possession of which is punishable by hand-amputation) is readily available on the black market, where Christian churches are national heritage sites, and where he discovers the real meaning of friendship, nationality, and hospitality. |
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Iran -- Description and travel.
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Iran -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
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Maslin, Jamie -- Travel -- Iran.
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| ISBN |
9781602397910 |
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1602397910 |
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