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Želi ovaj predmet: | 2 |
Stanje: | Polovan bez oštećenja |
Garancija: | Ne |
Isporuka: | Pošta Post Express Lično preuzimanje |
Plaćanje: | Tekući račun (pre slanja)
Lično |
Grad: |
Novi Sad, Novi Sad |
ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 2000
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani
U dobrom stanju
The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
Folio Society First Impression No. 1025
Publisher Folio Society, London; 2000
Blue Cloth Hardback, 329 pp
Photographs taken by the author
Size 230 x 160mm, 1.1kg
In August 1933, Robert Byron set off from Venice to view the holy sites and artistic treasures of the Middle East. His account of that scholar’s quest is one of the most eclectic, adventurous and entertaining travel books of all time. From the moment Byron’s charcoal-fuelled Rolls Royce fails to appear in Beirut, to his duplicitous entrance into the forbidden shrine at Meshed, is is a constant joy, as excruciating journeys and breathtaking architecture are recounted with the same life-affirming verve.
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The Road to Oxiana is a travelogue by Robert Byron, first published in 1937. It is considered by many modern travel writers to be the first example of great travel writing. The word “Oxiana” in the title refers to the region along Afghanistan’s northern border.
The book is an account of Byron’s ten-month journey to the Middle East in 1933-34, initially in the company of Christopher Sykes. It is in the form of a diary with the first entry “Venice, 20 August 1933” after which Byron travelled by ship to the island of Cyprus and then on to the then countries of Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Persia and Afghanistan. The journey ended in Peshawar, India (now part of Pakistan) on 19 June 1934, from where he returned to England.
The primary purpose of the journey was to visit the region’s architectural treasures of which Byron had an extensive knowledge, as evidenced by his observations along the way.
Byron interacted with the locals and negotiated transport, including motor vehicles, horses and asses to carry him on his journey. He encountered heat, cold, hunger and thirst and suffered the inconvenience of bugs, fleas, lice and physical illness.
Writer Paul Fussell 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.”