The Road To Oxiana by Robert Byron
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 forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union.
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).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844134229 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844134229 |
| Title | The Road To Oxiana |
| Author | Robert Byron |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2004-06-03 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
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