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The Road to Oxiana
The Road to Oxiana | Robert Byron
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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, it 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. When Paul Fussell "rediscovered" The Road to Oxiana in his recent book Abroad, he whetted the appetite of a whole new generation of readers. In his new introduction, written especially for this volume, Fussell writes: "Reading the book is like stumbling into a modern museum of literary kinds presided over by a benign if eccentric curator. 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."
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Angeles
The Road to Oxiana | Robert Byron
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I have been listening to this little travel adventure gem in my commute. The weird casual anti Semitism is disturbing since it was written in the eve of wwII. There is as well general racism towards anyone really non British but it is useful to remind myself the good old days weren‘t that good for most of us.😀

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LeahBergen
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Widely thought to be the “mother” of all great travelogues, this book (told in the form of a diary) tells of the author‘s 10-month journey through the Middle East in the 1930s.

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Melissa_J What a beautiful cover! 7y
writerlibrarian Turquoise and gold so beautiful. 7y
Leftcoastzen Lovely! Sounds interesting! 7y
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DebinHawaii Gorgeous! 💙💛 7y
CouronneDhiver Spectacular! 7y
merelybookish Have you read it? 7y
rubyslippersreads 😍😍😍 7y
LeahBergen @merelybookish Erm... not yet. 😆 7y
Aimeesue *SWOON*😍😍😍 7y
ApoptyGina69 Exactly my kinda book! #stacked 7y
Reviewsbylola So freakin gorgeous. 7y
DeborahSmall Beauty 7y
merelybookish @LeahBergen it's almost too pretty to bother! 7y
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Nebklvr
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This was great fun! Makes my feet itch! Oh, where to go.....

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Nebklvr
The Road to Oxiana | Robert Byron
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This was great fun! Makes my feet itch! Oh, where to go.....