{"product_id":"9781473669987","title":"Revolutionary Ride : On the Road in Search of the Real Iran by Lois Pryce","description":"Warm, funny . . . It's had my  whole family howling with laughter and  shedding a few tears' - Shappi  Khorsandi, Guardian'A proper travelogue - a joyful, moving and stereotype-busting tale' - National Geographic Traveller, Books of the YearIn  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,HabibIntrigued,  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.   *Shortlisted for the Adventure Travel Book of the Year Award*'Within a few pages I'd recognised a kindred spirit' - Dervla Murphy, author of Full Tilt\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204522606770,"sku":"9781473669987","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/products\/9781473669987.jpg?v=1690647090","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781473669987","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}