Filling a long-neglected gap in the travel literature of the region, Mirrors of the Unseen is a rare and timely portrait of the nation descended from the world’s first superpower: Iran. Drawing on several years of independent travel and research, this thought-provoking work weaves together portraits of everyday life in contemporary Iran with history, culture and a penetrating enquiry into the underlying principles of Islamic and Persian art. Generously illustrated with the author’s photographs, Mirrors of the Unseen is a rich, sensitive and vivid account of a country much misunderstood in the West.