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The Road to Oxiana

The Road to Oxiana

Byron, Robert
Fussell, Paul
Stewart, Rory

Paperback

Travel WritingGeneral Middle EastIndia & South Asia

Publisher Price: $18.98

ISBN10: 0195325605
ISBN13: 9780195325607
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 18 2007
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.55
Language: English
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. Throughout, he kept a thoroughly captivating record of his encounters, discoveries, and frequent misadventures. His story would become a best-selling travel book throughout the English-speaking world, until the acclaim died down and it was gradually forgotten. 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 statements revived the public's interest in the book, and for the first time, it was widely available in American bookstores. Now this long-overdue reprint will introduce it to a whole new generation of readers. This edition features a new introduction by Rory Stewart, best known for his book The Places In Between, about his extensive travels in Afghanistan.

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