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20 de dez. de 2020 · 24 ratings - view all. Evelyn Waugh, 1961. Christopher Sykes was a close friend and touring companion of both Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) and the intriguing but nearly forgotten travel writer Robert Byron (1905-41). On a trip to Istanbul in 1951, Sykes and Waugh visited Santa Sophia, built as a Byzantine church and converted into an Ottoman mosque.
The eyebrows shoot up upon reading Evelyn Waugh’s opinion of Byron given in 1948 in a letter to Harold Acton: “It is not yet the time to say so but I greatly disliked Robert in his last years & think he was a dangerous lunatic better off dead.”. Goodness me, and that from a fellow member of the Hypocrites’ Club.
Robert Byron (1923) Robert Byron (ur. 26 lutego 1905 w Londynie, zm. 24 lutego 1941 na statku Jonathan Holt podczas podróży do Egiptu) – pisarz brytyjski, podróżnik. Wykształcony w Oxfordzie, podróżował głównie na wschód ( Związek Radziecki, Tybet, Persja ). Autor książek o istocie podróżowania, zafascynowany literaturą i ...
Robert Byron (1905-1941) was a noted British traveler, art critic, and author trained as a Byzantinist. Byron is often credited with introducing an educated reading public to the importance of Islamic and Byzantine art. His most celebrated work, The Road to Oxiana, is an account of his journey through Iran and Afghanistan in 1933-1934.
18 de mai. de 2007 · The Road to Oxiana. Paperback – May 18, 2007. 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 ...
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Second English editions 1949–1950, London, 1949. The Road to Oxiana is a travelogue by the explorer Robert Byron, first published in 1937. It documents Byron's travels around Persia and Afghanistan, and is considered one of the most influential travel books of the 1930s. The word "Oxiana" in the title refers to the ancient name for the region ...
23 de dez. de 2019 · Independently Published, Dec 23, 2019 - Travel - 224 pages. The Road to Oxiana is the brilliant account of Robert Byron's ten-month journey to Iran and Afghanistan in 1933-34. This classic travelogue is considered by many modern travel writers to be the first example of great travel writing.
