The Road to Oxiana: New linked and annotated edition

ISBN-13: 9781535019620 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 322 str.

Robert Byron

Opis

-The Road to Oxiana- is an account of Robert Byron's ten-month journey to Iran and Afghanistan in 1933-34 in the company of Christopher Sykes. This travelogue is considered by many modern travel writers to be the first example of great travel writing. Bruce Chatwin has described it as -a sacred text, beyond criticism- and carried his copy since he was fifteen years old, -spineless and floodstained- after four journeys through central Asia. By the Si-o-seh pol bridge in Isfahan, Iran, Byron wrote: -The lights came out. A little breeze stirred, and for the first time in four months I felt a wind that had no chill in it. I smelt the spring, and the rising sap. One of those rare moments of absolute peace, when the body is loose, the mind asks no questions, and the world is a triumph, was mine.-