Author: Byron, Robert / Moorhouse, Geoffrey (introd.).
Title: The road to Oxiana.
Description: London, The Folio Society, 2000 Bound, decorated cloth with slipcase. 329pp., 16,5x23,5cm., illustr. in b/w., in good condition (slipcover and binding with light traces of use, spine somewhat yellowed, name and date in pencil on first page). In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana - the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. The Road to Oxiana offers not only a wonderful record of his adventures, but also a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now inaccessible to most Western travelers.

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