A real-life adventure that inspired countless travellers in fact and fiction, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Robert Byron\'s "The Road to Oxiana" includes an introduction by Colin Thubron. "The Road to Oxiana" offers not only a wonderful r.
In 1933 Robert Byron 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.
A real-life adventure that inspired countless travellers in fact and fiction, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Robert Byron\'s "The Road to Oxiana" includes an introduction by Colin Thubron