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Overview

In 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana, near the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. Throughout, he kept a thoroughly captivating record of his encounters, discoveries, and frequent misadventures. His story would become a best-selling travel book throughout the English-speaking world, until the acclaim died down and it was gradually forgotten. When Paul Fussell published his own book Abroad, in 1982, he wrote that The Road to Oxiana is to the travel book what "Ulysses is to the novel between the wars, and what The Waste Land is to poetry." His statements revived the public's interest in the book, and for the first time, it was widely available in American bookstores. Now this long-overdue reprint will introduce it to a whole new generation of readers. This edition features a new introduction by Rory Stewart, best known for his book The Places In
Between, about his extensive travels in Afghanistan.
Today, 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 travelers, and a nostalgic look back at a more innocent time.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780195325607
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/18/2007
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 521,155
Product dimensions: 8.55(w) x 5.52(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

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 travel books before his untimely death in 1941, while serving as a correspondent for a London newspaper during World War II.

Table of Contents


Part 1
Venice     19
s.s. Italia     20
Cyprus
Kyrenia     22
Nicosia     24
Famagusta     25
Larnaca     27
s.s. Martha Washington     27
Palestine
Jerusalem     28
Syria
Damascus     38
Beyrut     39
Damascus     40
Irak
Baghdad     45
Part 2
Persia
Kirmanshah     49
Teheran     50
Gulhek     53
Teheran     54
Zinjan     55
Tabriz     58
Maragha     61
Tasr Kand     62
Saoma     64
Kala Julk     65
Ak Bulagh     66
Zinjan     67
Part 3
Teheran     69
Ayn Varzan     76
Shahrud     77
Nishapur     78
Meshed     79
Afghanistan
Herat     84
Karokh     108
Kala Nao     110
Laman     114
Karokh     116
Herat     116
Persia
Meshed     119
Teheran     123
Part 4
Teheran     125
Kum     133
Delijan     133
Isfahan     134
Abadeh     137
Shiraz     137
Kavar     141
Firuzabad     144
Ibrahimabad     149
Shiraz     157
Kazerun     157
Persepolis     159
Abadeh     169
Isfahan     170
Yezd     178
Bahramabad     181
Kirman     181
Mahun     182
Yezd     184
Isfahan     184
Teheran     185
Sultaniya     192
Teheran     192
Part 5
Shahi     195
Asterabad     197
Gumbad-i-Kabus     199
Bandar Shah     202
Samnan     203
Damghan     204
Abbasabad     205
Meshed     205
Kariz     213
Afghanistan
Herat     216
Moghor     224
Bala Murghab     231
Maimena     233
Andkhoi     241
Mazar-i-Sherif      243
Kunduz     260
Khanabad     264
Bamian     267
Shibar     271
Charikar     274
Kabul     275
Ghazni     277
Kabul     280
India
Peshawar     283
The Frontier Mail     285
s.s. Maloja     285
England
Savernake     286
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