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Author: Byron, Robert
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"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 floodstained" after four journeys through central Asia.By the Si-o-seh pol bridge in Isfahan, Iran, Byron wrote: "The lights came out. A little breeze stirred, and for the first time in four months I felt a wind that had no chill in it. I smelt the spring, and the rising sap. One of those rare moments of absolute peace, when the body is loose, the mind asks no questions, and the world is a triumph, was mine."

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Título The Road to Oxiana: New linked and annotated edition
Autor Robert Byron
Encuadernación Tapa blanda
Páginas 322
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Fecha de publicación 2016-06-26
ISBN 9781535019620 / 153501962X
Peso 0.95 libras (0.43 kg)
Dimensiones 9 x 6 x 0.67 pulgadas (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.70 cm)
Temas
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
Dewey Decimal Code 915

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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 1936, in Beijing, when he found himself alone in house of Desmond Parsons, the unreciprocated love of his life. Robert Byron died in 1941, during the Second World War, when the ship on which he was travelling was torpedoed by a U-Boat off Cape Wrath, Scotland, en route to Egypt. His body was never found.

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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Used - Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.