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ROAD TO OXIANA
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| By: |
Robert Byron |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1844134229 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781844134229 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
3 June, 2004 |
| Pages: |
416 |
| Description: |
In 1933, Robert Byron set out on 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. Here he recounts his adventures. |
| Synopsis: |
In 1933, the delightfully eccentric Robert Byron set out on 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. His arrival at his destination, the legendary tower of Qabus, although a wonder in itself, is not nearly so amazing as the thoroughly captivating, at times zany, record of his adventures. 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 travellers. Here, 'armchair travellers will find newspaper clippings, public signs and notices, official forms, letters, 'diary entries', essays on current politics, lyric passages, historical and archaeological dissertations, brief travel narratives (usually of comic-awful delays and disasters), and - the triumph of the book - at least twenty superb comic dialogues, some of them virtually playlets, complete with stage directions and 'musical' scoring.' Paul Fussell, from the Introduction to the OUP US paperback, 1982 |
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UK |
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Pimlico |
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Returnable |
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