"The Road to Oxiana" is an account of Robert Byron\'s ten-month journey to Iran and Afghanistan in 1933-34 in the company of Christopher Sykes.
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Bruce Chatwin has described it as "a sacred text, beyond criticism" and carried his copy since he was fifteen years old, "spineless and floodstained" after four journeys through central Asia.
This travelogue is considered by many modern travel writers to be the first example of great travel writing. "The Road to Oxiana" is an account of Robert Byron\'s ten-month journey to Iran and Afghanistan in 1933-34 in the company of Christopher Sykes