Non-fiction: Revolutionary Ride

1. Lois Pryce is a British journalist and a motorcycle traveler.
2. Two qualities that enable her to write the book are:
3. she is an established writer of non-fiction with a distinctive style and
4. she approaches her travelogue as objective journalism.
5. But any journey has a life of its own
6. It is always defined by place, time and personality.

1. Strong point:   Pryce highlights the perils
2. a woman faces  traveling alone in Iran
   
3. She succeeds in telling us about 
4. …the reality of women’s lives in that country.

1. Strong point: Pryce shows her strength  during
2. a few nerve-wracking  experiences:
3. being tailgated by cars/ trucks on deserted back roads
4. or  attacked at a petrol station.
5. Pryce learns that unease and anxiety are
6. part of the process and cannot be rushed.

1. Strong point: Pryce reports the conversations with
2. ordinary Iranians as they explain the how the 1979
3. Revolution and sanctions have impacted their lives.

1. Tone: this changes according to Pryce’s mood.
2. There were time she battled homesickness
3. ….or was visibly shaken by a ‘fender bender’ in Tehran.
4. At times Pryce felt a primal urge to
5. …hide away for a while in a hotel.
6. She needed some shelter.
7. The hotel’s family invited her to the family for a meal
8. …and after dinner opium smoke!
9. For the first time all the tension in
10. …her road-wary muscles was seeping away.
11. A dreamy sense of well being washed over her.

Last Thoughts:

1. Lois Pryce sums up her feelings:
2. “I had been bracing myself for all
3. the horrors predicted by the
4. …doom-mongers back home.
5. But instead I had been hit with a tidal wave of
6. warmth and humanity to a degree
7. that I have never experienced
8. …anywhere in the world.
9. Traveling is always an adventure
10. but Lois Pryce has taken it to a new level:
11. a woman on a solo motorcycle journey
12. …through the Middel East, Iran.
13. What will she come up against? How will she cope?
14. This is an impressive piece of travel writing!
15. #MustRead
16. #WorldFromMyArmchair