The Road to Oxiana

by Robert Byron

Overview

The Road to Oxiana is the brilliant account of Robert Byron’s ten-month journey to Iran and Afghanistan in 1933–34. This classic travelogue is considered by many modern travel writers to be the first example of great travel writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788834111925
Publisher:	Reading Essentials
Publication date:	05/15/2019
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	600,319
File size:	1 MB

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

Editorial Reviews

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From the Publisher

British narrator Barnaby Edwards captures pioneering travel writer Robert Byron’s historical commentary, humor, and bon vivant sensibility while crossing the Middle East to explore the farthest reaches of Persia and Afghanistan in 1933-34. With the ability to evoke entire centuries and architectural styles in a single sentence, Byron is considered one of the masters of the travelogue genre. Edwards is at his best as he delivers Byron’s hilarious word-for-word conversations with local warlords, stuffy diplomats, and chatty Americans while he pushes through extreme heat, floods, and snow on foot and by horse and motorcar to visit the Mosque of Sheikh Lutfullah, Persepolis, and the crossroads village of Ghazni. Perfect listening for the armchair traveler in all of us. B.P. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

AUGUST 2019 - AudioFile

British narrator Barnaby Edwards captures pioneering travel writer Robert Byron’s historical commentary, humor, and bon vivant sensibility while crossing the Middle East to explore the farthest reaches of Persia and Afghanistan in 1933-34. With the ability to evoke entire centuries and architectural styles in a single sentence, Byron is considered one of the masters of the travelogue genre. Edwards is at his best as he delivers Byron’s hilarious word-for-word conversations with local warlords, stuffy diplomats, and chatty Americans while he pushes through extreme heat, floods, and snow on foot and by horse and motorcar to visit the Mosque of Sheikh Lutfullah, Persepolis, and the crossroads village of Ghazni. Perfect listening for the armchair traveler in all of us. B.P. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

AUGUST 2019 - AudioFile