Description
Blending travel writing with the author's observations on the deeper political and social issues during 1931 and 1932, this title describes the eventual horrors of the Soviet Union and the downfall of the Raj.
About the Author
Robert Byron was one of the twentieth century's greatest travel writers as well as a noted art critic and historian. Byron's The Road to Oxiana is considered by many to be the first example of great travel writing; Paul Fussell said that it is to the travel book what "Ulysses is to the novel between the wars and what The Waste Land is to poetry"; Bruce Chatwin described it as "a sacred text, beyond criticism", carrying his copy, "spineless and floodstained" on four journeys through Central Asia. Robert Byron also wrote Europe in the Looking Glass, The Byzantine Achievement and The Station. He died in 1941, at the age of 35, when the ship on which he was travelling was torpedoed by a German U-Boat in the Atlantic.
Reviews
'One comes away from reading him with a joyous consciousness of having seen for the first time a whole world of unsuspected things.' - Christopher Sykes; 'He would prove hugely influential: on travel literature, on conservation, and on our appreciation of Eastern cultures.' - Richard Canning, The Independent
Book Information
ISBN 9781848854246
Author Robert Byron
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Barbara Ward & Associates
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 456g