Publisher's Synopsis
Rare is the life lived at the centre of history-shaping events, and rarer still the combining of such a life with brilliant gifts of observation and expression. Dr Ghasem Ghani of Iran was such an individual. His recollections of a career of pioneering scholarship and diplomacy have been published to great acclaim in twelve volumes in the original Persian. Now his son has edited and abridged this record into a single volume in English. For anyone interested in modern Iranian history and the interacting traditions of East and West, it is essential reading, full of insightful observations and comments that are relevant today.
