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  • Published: 20 August 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141442099
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.00
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The Road to Oxiana




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In 1933 Robert Byron began 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. The Road to Oxiana offers not only a wonderful record of his adventures, but also a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now inaccessible to most Western travelers.

  • Published: 20 August 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141442099
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.00
Categories:

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About the author

Robert Byron

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).