false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172293187m/161711.jpg 161711 5 <div><div>In our current climate of war and suspicion, Iran is depicted as the &#8220;next&#8221; rogue nation that America and the world must &#8220;deal with.&#8221; But the rhetoric about nuclear weapons and jihad obscures the real Iran: an ancient nation and culture, both sophisticated and isolated, which still exists clandestinely in major cities as well as the country&#8217;s remote mountains and deserts. <br><br>Jason Elliot has spent the last four years traveling in Iran, and in this remarkable book he reveals the many sides of the culture, art, architecture, and people that Westerners cannot see or conveniently ignore. Part close reading of symbols and images, part history, and part intimate interviews with Iranians of many different kinds&#8212;from wealthy aristocrats at forbidden parties to tribal horsemen in the most remote mountain villages, who have never seen a Westerner&#8212;<i>Mirrors of the Unseen</i> is a beautiful and thought-provoking book by one of the world&#8217;s most acclaimed adventurers and authors.</div></div> 643 3 10 2006 Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran total:61|5:21|4:20|3:11|2:8|1:1| 61 235 152 18 4 0 false false Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 08:53:03 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 09:02:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 19:25:52 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 08:23:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 06 03:12:03 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 19 03:44:13 -0700 2008 Unexpected Light yet, but it's not that I don't like his writing. And I picked this up from the New Book shelves at the Neilson Hays Library, so I only have two weeks to read it. Nothing like a time limit to get me reading.

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