In 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut to Oxiana, between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union.
Today, 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 travelers, and a nostalgic look back at a more innocent time..
This edition features a new introduction by Rory Stewart, best known for his book The Places In Between , about his extensive travels in Afghanistan.
Now this long-overdue reprint will introduce it to a whole new generation of readers.
His statements revived the public\'s interest in the book, and for the first time, it was widely available in American bookstores.
When Paul Fussell published his own book AbRoad , in 1982, he wrote that The Road to Oxiana is to the travel book what Ulysses is to the novel between the wars, and what The Waste Land is to poetry.
His story would become a best-selling travel book throughout the English-speaking world, until the acclaim died down and it was gradually forgotten.
Throughout, he kept a thoroughly captivating record of his encounters, discoveries, and frequent misadventures.
In 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana, near the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union.
This is his captivating record of his encounters, discoveries, and frequent misadventures along the way.
In 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut to Oxiana, between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union
