

The Road to Oxiana
Author: Robert Byron
Narrator: Barnaby Edwards
Unabridged: 11 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks
Published: 03/01/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Travel, Middle East
Author: Robert Byron
Narrator: Barnaby Edwards
Unabridged: 11 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks
Published: 03/01/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Travel, Middle East
”Baalbek is the triumph of stone; of lapidary magnificence on a scale whose language, being still the language of the eye, dwarfs New York into a home of ants. The stone is peach-coloured, and is marked in ruddy gold as the columns of St. Martin-in-the-fields are marked in soot. It has a marmoreal t......more
Essential reading. In fact, this was such a fresh conception of the travel-amid-ruins-cum-history-cum-memoir that it has served as a model for Bruce Chatwin, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Pico Iyer, Peter Matthiessen, Jan Morris and other writers over the years. It contains a great many references to Persia......more
Mash-up : The Rough Guide to the Middle East with Brideshead Revisited, the whole thing written up by that saucy boy Anthony Blanche. I did immoderately love flamboyant young Anthony up to no good in the louche bars of Oxford but when he morphs into Robert Byron and swans around sneering at Johnny F......more