The Road to Oxiana

Informationen zum Autor Robert Byron Klappentext Robert Byron was born in 1905! and educated at Eton and Merton College! Oxford. He died in 1941! during the Second World War! when the ship he was serving on was torpedoed by a U-Boat off Cape Wrath. Byron's The Road to Oxiana is considered by many modern travel writers to be the first example of great travel writing. Award-winning travel writer and novelist Colin Thubron was born in London on 14 June 1939. Among his books are Mirror to Damascus (1967)! The Hills of Adonis: A Quest in Lebanon (1968)! Jerusalem (1969)! The Lost Heart of Asia (1994) and In Siberia (1999). Colin Thubron is a regular contributor and reviewer for magazines and newspapers including The Times ! The Times Literary Supplement and the Spectator . He lives in London. Zusammenfassung In 1933, the author 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. In this title, he presents a record of his adventures.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Byron, Colin Thubron
• Assisted by: Colin Thubron (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.07.2007
• EAN: 9780141442099
• ISBN: 978-0-14-144209-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics; Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Middle East; TRAVEL / Middle East / General, Central Asia, Middle East, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)