Iran Travel

This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years. The book covers the complex history of the diverse societies and economies of Iran against the background of dynastic changes, revolutions, civil wars, foreign occupation, and the rise of the Islamic Republic.

When Jamie Maslin decides to hitchhike the entire length of the Silk Road, he decides to travel first and plan later. Then, unexpectedly stranded in Iran - a country he's only read about in newspapers - he wonders whether he'll make it out alive. After crossing the border on foot from Turkey, Maslin finds himself suddenly plunged into the subversive, contradictory world of Iranian subculture, where he is embraced by locals who are happy to show him the true Iran as they see it....

The Iran Wars is an absorbing account of a battle waged on many levels - military, financial, and covert. Jay Solomon’s book is the product of extensive in-depth reporting and interviews with all the key players in the conflict - from high-ranking Iranian officials to Secretary of State John Kerry and his negotiating team. With a reporter’s masterly investigative eye and the narrative dexterity of a great historian, Solomon shows how Iran’s nuclear development went unnoticed for years by the international community only to become its top security concern.

Ancient Persia conjures images of extravagant palaces, beautiful gardens, mighty armies, and all-powerful kings, queens, and princes. The beginnings of Iranian antiquity are enigmatic, but from the cradle of the western Zagros Mountains came the greatest empires the world has ever known. The Elamites, Medians, Achaemenids, Parthians, and Sassanids all sprang from interlinked cultural origins that could trace their roots back through each successive empire.

This is a remarkable travel recollection from that most remarkable woman, Gertrude Bell. Provides a number of nice glimpses into the people and culture of Persia during the latter part of the 1800s. Now in a new, inexpensive edition.

Es ist offiziell verboten. Trotzdem reist Stephan Orth als Couchsurfer kreuz und quer durch den Iran, schläft auf Dutzenden von Perserteppichen, erlebt irrwitzige Abenteuer - und lernt dabei ein Land kennen, das so gar nicht zum Bild des Schurkenstaates passt. Denn die Iraner sind nicht nur Weltmeister in Sachen Gastfreundschaft, sondern auch darin, den Mullahs ein Schnippchen zu schlagen. Ob beim Rotwein-Besäufnis mit einem persischen Prinzen oder bei einem Wohnzimmer-Date mit versammelter Großfamilie, im stinkenden Schmugglerbus oder im rasenden Kleinwagen.

Growing up in Tehran in the 1960s, Terence Ward and his brothers were watched over by Hassan, the family’s cook, housekeeper, and cultural guide. After an absence of 30 years and much turmoil in Iran, Ward embarks on a quixotic pilgrimage with his family in search of their lost friend. However, as they set out on this improbable quest with no address or phone number, their only hope lies in their mother’s small black and white photograph taken decades before.

US relations with Iran have been fraught for decades, but, under the Trump Administration, tensions are rising to startling levels. Medea Benjamin, one of the best-known 21st century activists, offers the incredible history of how a probable alliance became a bitter antagonism in this accessible and fascinating story.

Greater Than a Tourist-Kerman Iran by Sanaz Honarmand Ebrahimi offers the inside scoop on the place of natural contrasts. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

خلال رحلةٍ تستمرُّ عشرون يومًا يطوف بنا الرّحالة عمرو بدوي في بلاد فارس داخل العمق الإيراني بدءًا من مدينة "شيراز" مدينة الشعراء حيث المساجد التي تزدان بنقوشٍ عربية، ثمَّ مدينة "يزد" معقل الطائفة الزرادشتية ليغوص في عالمٍ ساحر كتلك العوالم الموجودة في الروايات، ثمَّ ينتقل بنا إلى أصفهان التي لن نشفى من عذوبتها أبدًا فنرى معه الحدائق الغنّاء والبناء المعماري المتميز والكنائس الرومانية.

Sind Sie bereit für einen wirklich außergewöhnlichen Reisebericht? Urlaub machen in Nordkorea? Eine Pauschalreise in den Iran? Mit dem Mountainbike quer durch Bhutan? Im Winter nach Tibet? Spinnt der??? Nordkorea, Bhutan, Iran und Tibet sind alles andere als beliebte Reiseziele. Abgeschieden, teils von der Außenwelt isoliert, in zerklüfteten Landstrichen gelegen und oft gezeichnet von einer schwierigen politischen Lage, finden Sie dort weder All-inklusive-Hotelanlagen noch Urlaubsangebote zum Entspannen.