The Road to Oxiana: New linked and annotated edition - Paperback
by Robert Byron
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformISBN-13:9781535019620ISBN-10:153501962XUPC:9781535019620Book Category:TravelBook Subcategory:Middle East, Essays & Travelogues, AsiaSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCYABDRZ0M
The Road to Oxiana: New linked and annotated edition
"The Road to Oxiana" is an account of Robert Byron's ten-month journey to Iran and Afghanistan in 1933-34 in the company of Christopher Sykes. This travelogue is considered by many modern travel writers to be the first example of great travel writing. Bruce Chatwin has described it as "a sacred text, beyond criticism" and carried his copy since he was fifteen years old, "spineless and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformISBN-13:9781535019620ISBN-10:153501962XUPC:9781535019620Book Category:TravelBook Subcategory:Middle East, Essays & Travelogues, AsiaSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCYABDRZ0M
Robert Byron (26 February 1905 - 24 February 1941) was a British travel writer, art critic and historian. Byron traveled to widely different places; Mount Athos, India, the Soviet Union, and Tibet. However it was in Persia and Afghanistan that he found the subject round which he forged his style of modern travel writing, when he later came to write up his account of "The Road to Oxiana" in early...
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