V. Sackville-West, Passenger to Teheran
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Sackville-West, V. Passenger to Teheran. Second Edition. 1990. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Introduction by Nigel Nicolson.
Originally published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press in the 1920s, this is Vita Sackville-West’s account of her journey through the Middle East to see her husband Harold Nicolson who was a diplomat stationed in Persia. She took a circuitous route through Egypt, India, and Iraq. On the return, she traveled inland via Russia, which was just then recovering from the upheaval of the Revolution. Sackville-West professed to loath travel narratives, which most likely explains why this outstanding book transcends the genre.
“Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.”
--V. Sackville-West
Originally published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press in the 1920s, this is Vita Sackville-West’s account of her journey through the Middle East to see her husband Harold Nicolson who was a diplomat stationed in Persia. She took a circuitous route through Egypt, India, and Iraq. On the return, she traveled inland via Russia, which was just then recovering from the upheaval of the Revolution. Sackville-West professed to loath travel narratives, which most likely explains why this outstanding book transcends the genre.
“Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.”
--V. Sackville-West
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