Saved by beauty : adventures of an American romantic in Iran
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York : Broadway Books, c2011.
Physical Description
viii, 290 : map ; 22 cm.
Summary
Poet, adventurer, and unapologetic romantic Housden travels to Iran to learn about the people, the culture, and the art of this misunderstood land.
Contents
- Writing Iran
- Leaving the known
- Paradise and poetry
- Talking stones
- Return to the source
- The blue dome
- Drink the wine
- More than one veil
- Christmas in Tehran
- One imam and three wise men
- The sorrow in Shiraz
- Razor's edge
- Politics as usual
- In Mesopotamia
- Return to beauty
- Interrogation, with room service.