Blind White Fish in Persia

“‘In Persia, blind white fish live in the qanats’

Before the Shah, the Ayatollahs and the oil had changed the face of Iran, that short sentence took four Oxford students on a voyage of exploration.
Searching for among other things, a new species of fish reputed to live in the underground water channels that criss-cross the country, the discovered the people, customs and landscape of an ancient, mysterious and very foreign land.

Written with affection, humour and contagious enthusiasm (and now with a new Postscript describing the final outcome of their4 scientific research), this classic account speaks vividly down the years of the romance, pitfalls and occasional hazards of discovery in the extraordinary timeless world of post-war Persia.”