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In 1926 Vita Sackville-West travelled to Iran to visit her husband, Harold Nicolson, who was serving as a diplomat in Teheran. Her route was deliberately slow-paced - she stopped in Egypt, where she sailed up the Nile to Luxor; and India, where she visited New Delhi and Agra before sailing... read more

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VITA Sackville-West began her book of Persian travels with the provocative statement, "There is no greater bore than the travel bore", and then, by her account of her own journey, disproves it.

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  1. 1920s
  2. bloomsbury
  3. central asia
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  10. persia
  11. sackville-west
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