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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 292 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195030672
Release Date: Jan 3, 2001
| |  | | | In Brief
Robert Byron, the author of several books of art history and travel, died in 1941 when a ship taking him to a wartime assignment was sunk by a German submarine. The Road to Oxiana was first published in 1937 and has hitherto been unavailable in this country. "Obsessed with Islamic architecture and a desire to see the ruins of Persia and Afghanistan, Byron... hired servants and set out overland from Beirut by car, truck and horseback. Oxiana is the classical name for a part of Turkistan that lies roughly between Herat, Afghanistan, and Samarkand, U.S.S.R. Byron tells the story of his yearlong trek not as a continuous narrative, but in... diary entries, replete with vignettes, didactic asides and dialogue." (Newsweek) Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
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. His arrival at his destination, the legendary tower of Qabus, although a wonder in itself, is not nearly so amazing as the thoroughly captivating, at times zany, record of his adventures. In addition to its entertainment value, The Road to Oxiana also serves as a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now inaccessible to most Western travellers.
When Paul Fussel "rediscovered" The Road to Oxiana in his recent book Abroad, he whetted the appetite of a whole new generation of readers. Now available for the first time in the United States, The Road to Oxiana won a Sunday Times (London) Gold Medal when it first appeared in 1937. In his new introduction, written especially for this volume, Fussel writes:
"Reading the book is like stumbling into a modern museum of literary kinds presided over by a benign if eccentric curator. Here armchair travellers will find newspaper clippings, public signs and notices, official forms, letters, 'diary entries', essays on current politics, lyric passages, historical and archaeological dissertations, brief travel narratives (usually of comic-awful delays and disasters), and—the triumph of the book—at least twenty superb comic dialogues, some of them virtually playlets, complete with stage directions and 'musical' scoring."
| | | | Annotation
Offers a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now inaccessible to most Western travelers.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
Persia and Afghanistan in the early 1930s, described in a rich mixture of scholarship and adventure narrative
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