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The Road to Oxiana: New linked and annotated edition

The Road to Oxiana: New linked and annotated edition

Byron, Robert

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Travel WritingGeneral AsiaGeneral Middle East

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ISBN10: 153501962X
ISBN13: 9781535019620
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 26 2016
Pages: 322
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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