The Road to Oxiana

Informationen zum Autor Bruce Chatwin was born in Sheffield in 1940. After attending Marlborough School he began work as a porter at Sotheby's. Eight years later, having become one of Sotheby's youngest directors, he abandoned his job to pursue his passion for world travel. Between 1972 and 1975 he worked for the Sunday Times , before announcing his next departure in a telegram: 'Gone to Patagonia for six months.' This trip inspired the first of Chatwin's books, In Patagonia , which won the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M. Forster Award and launched his writing career. Two of his books have been made into feature films: The Viceroy of Ouidah (retitled Cobra Verde ), directed by Werner Herzog, and Andrew Grieve's On the Black Hill . On publication The Songlines went straight to Number 1 in the Sunday Times bestseller list and remained in the top ten for nine months. On the Black Hill won the Whitbread First Novel Award while his novel Utz was nominated for the 1988 Booker Prize. He died in January 1989, aged forty-eight. Klappentext In 1933, the delightfully eccentric Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana. This title presents a record of his adventures and an account of the architectural treasures of a region. Zusammenfassung In 1933, the delightfully eccentric Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana. This title presents a record of his adventures and an account of the architectural treasures of a region.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Byron, Byron Robert
• Assisted by: Bruce Chatwin (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9780099523888
• ISBN: 978-0-09-952388-8
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Vintage; Vintage
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Pakistan, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, TRAVEL / Asia / India & South Asia, TRAVEL / Middle East / General, Middle East, c 1930 to c 1939, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General