The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron, Bruce Chatwin In 1933, the delightfully eccentric Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana. This title presents a record of his adventures and an account of the architectural treasures of a region. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description What Ulysses is to the novel between the wars and what The Waste Land is to poetry, The Road to Oxiana is to the travel book. Paul Fussell, AbroadDiscover the ultimate in classic 1930s travel writing.A writer of breathtaking prose - prose whose sensuous, chiselled beauty has cast its spell on English travel writing ever since William DalrympleIn 1933, the delightfully eccentric, Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Tehran to Oxiana - the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which formed part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. His journey ended in what is now Peshawar, Pakistan.While his arrival at his destination, the legendary tower of Qabus, is a wonder, the journey itself is a captivating, quirky record of his adventures and a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now lost to time and conflict.Funny, didactic and biting, Byrons masterpiece transports us across the world and, better still, across the decades Independent Notes A great classic of travel writing, with an introduction by Bruce Chatwin, now in a new Vintage Classics edition. Back Cover Robert Byron was the pre-eminent travel writer of his generation. Witty, mercurial, combative, erudite, his classic The Road to Oxiana fuses his scholarship and descriptive power Colin Thubron, Guardian In 1933, the delightfully eccentric Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana - the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which formed part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. While his arrival at his destination, the legendary tower of Qabus, is a wonder, the journey itself is a captivating, quirky record of his adventures and a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now inaccessible to most Western travellers. There are funny tales...There are exquisite vignettes... Most of all, this book is a monument to monuments that are gone The Times See Also: The Ascent of Rum Doodle Author Biography Robert Byron was born in England in 1905 into a family distantly related to Lord Byron. He attended Eton and Merton College, Oxford, and wrote several other travel books before his untimely death in 1941 when his ship to West Africa was torpedoed while serving as a correspondent for a London newspaper during World War II. Among his other books are The Station (1928), The Byzantine Achievement (1929), and First Russia, Then Tibet (1933). Review A brilliantly-wrought expression of a thoroughly modern sensibility, a portrait of an accidental man adrift between frontiers * New York Review of Books *The Road to Oxiana is part travelogue, part aesthetic manifesto and part social observation; it remains the most thoroughly readable of all books. And Byron is the ideal companion, witty, charming, irascible, and content to leave and be left alone * The Times *The Road to Oxiana is an informed, somewhat high-flown account of the early Islamic architecture of Persia and Afghanistan wrapped in a comic narrative that ensured a far wider readership... Funny, didactic and biting, Byrons masterpiece transports us across the world and, better still, across the decades to splendidly alien lands * Independent *My favourite travel book is Robert Byrons The Road To Oxiana, which started a new wave of travel writing. I took it on my first trip to Iran. I always take books about the places Im visiting: I sat in a ruined mosque now populated by sheep and read Byrons wonderful descriptions of it. I think that sowed a seed for the Travel Bookshop -- Sarah Anderson, founder of The Travel BookshopI love literary travel books and this is the best one in the English language. Scholarly, eccentric and wildly opinionated -- Tudor Parfitt * Geographical * Promotional What Ulysses is to the novel between the wars and what The Waste Land is to poetry, The Road to Oxiana is to the travel book. Paul Fussell, Abroad Review Text A brilliantly-wrought expression of a thoroughly modern sensibility, a portrait of an accidental man adrift between frontiers Review Quote A brilliantly-wrought expression of a thoroughly modern sensibility, a portrait of an accidental man adrift between frontiers Promotional "Headline" What Ulysses is to the novel between the wars and what The Waste Land is to poetry, The Road to Oxiana is to the travel book. Paul Fussell, Abroad Details ISBN0099523884 Author Bruce Chatwin Year 2010 ISBN-10 0099523884 ISBN-13 9780099523888 Format Paperback Publication Date 2010-04-01 Media Book Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 915.6043 Illustrations Illustrations, maps Tag vintageclassics Publisher Vintage Publishing Imprint Vintage Classics Replaced by 9781844134229 Language English UK Release Date 2010-04-01 AU Release Date 2010-04-01 NZ Release Date 2010-04-01 Pages 432 Birth 1854 Death 1900 Affiliation University of Memphis Position Novelist Qualifications PhD Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:26677548;

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