From a Persian Tea House: Travels in Old Iran (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) - Softcover

Michael Carroll was born in England in 1935. He was educated at Harrow and Cambridge, but spent much of his early life in India. While at Cambridge, he travelled widely on the continent during holidays. He is also author of Gates of the Wind, the story of his time spent on the Greek island of Skopelos.

*Mr Carroll is a born traveller. He is hungry for strangeness. He is tough without being coarse; amused and unpretentious. Above all he can write.* -- The Observer

*The romance of the book is the traditional romance of a perceptive young man, happy to soak himself in the life of a foreign country and evoke it with rich, descriptive writing.* -- The New Statesman

*He has a natural gift of writing and especially for translating the observations of a quick eye into a telling phrase.* -- Times Literary Supplement

*Describes all he saw and experienced in the most entrancing detail and with great good humour. A lovely, gracious book.* -- Press and Journal

*A travel writer of rare charm and perception. His travels reveal observation combined with sympathy, persistence with humour.* -- Western Mail