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Covers of The Road to Oxiana and The Station, published by John Lehmann. 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 along Afghanistan's northern border.

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The Road to Oxiana

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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,...

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Oxiana

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wrote about Oxiana in his book The Road to Oxiana describing his ten-month-long journey to Persia and Afghanistan in 1933–34 and visited the remains of...

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Robert Byron

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travelogue The Road to Oxiana. He was also an art critic and historian. Robert Byron was born in Wembley, London on 26 February 1905, the only son of...

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Gawhar Shad

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Encyclopaedia Iranica. Retrieved 16 September 2014. Byron, Robert (1982). The Road to Oxiana. Oxford University Press. p. 220. ISBN 9780195030679. Taliban, by...

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Palace of Ardashir

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The Road to Oxiana. Byron considered the Palace to include the prototype of the squinch. In his view, buildings such as St. Peter's Basilica and the Taj...

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Amu Darya

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Escape to Persia and Oxus in Summer. Robert Byron's 1937 travelogue, The Road to Oxiana, describes its author's journey from the Levant through Persia to Afghanistan...

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Rory Stewart

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prefaces to Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands, (edition 2008) Charles Doughty's Arabia Deserta (edition 2013), and Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana. Stewart's...

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Provided by Reuters.com. Archived from the original on 3 February 2003. Byron, Robert (27 June 2016). The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded...

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In Patagonia

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and The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron. However, residents in the region contradicted the account of events depicted in Chatwin's book. It was the first...

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Estate of Belmont. https://hankwhittemore.com/tag/villa-foscari/ The Road to Oxiana, Robert Byron, Pimlico edition, 2004, page 4. "Chaterine D'Erlanger"...

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Musalla complex

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Byron's book, The Road to Oxiana, mentions the minarets and discusses Timurid history. The mausoleum of 'Ali Shir Nawa'i was rebuilt in 1950. By the 20th century...

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Parasang

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described it as the distance covered between retying his shoe-laces. In Robert Byron's 1933-1934 travels through the orient, the Road to Oxiana gives distances...

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List of travel books

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Gerald Brenan (1894–1987) The Spanish Labyrinth (1943) The Face of Spain (1950) Robert Byron (1905–1941) The Road to Oxiana (1937) – travels in Persia...

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1937 in literature

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Belloc – The Crusades: the World's Debate Alf K. Berle and L. Sprague de Camp – Inventions and Their Management Robert Byron – The Road to Oxiana Jean Giono...

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(2014). Afghanistan. Princeton University Press. p. 318. ISBN 978-1-4008-5891-0. Byron, Robert (1937). The Road to Oxiana. Macmillan and Co. Ltd. p. 101....

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Bruce Chatwin

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admirer of Robert Byron and his book, The Road to Oxiana, he travelled twice to Afghanistan. He also used these trips to visit markets and shops, where he...

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Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque

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Robert; The Road to Oxiana; p. 177- 8 Jackson, Peter; Lockhart, Laurence, eds. (1986). "Safavid Architecture". The Cambridge History of Iran: The Timurid...

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Indian cobra

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bitten by N. oxiana. A woman bitten by N. oxiana in northwestern Pakistan suffered prominent neurotoxicity and died while en route to the closest hospital...

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Colin Thubron

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– John Murray, 2002 The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron – Penguin, 2007 Stalin's Nose – by Rory MacLean – Tauris Parke, 2008 The Travels of Marco Polo...

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A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

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book Slowly Down the Ganges "vastly entertaining", reminiscent of earlier British travellers such as Robert Byron (The Road to Oxiana, 1937), but also...

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Picador Travel Classics

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a trend in the late 20th century to canonize the travel literature genre, "This is a series that partly announces the classic status - the canonicity...

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Mohammad Gul Khan Momand

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policies during Nadir and Zahir Shah's rule Byron, Robert (1982). The Road to Oxiana. United States: Oxford University Press. pp. 320. ISBN 0-19-503067-2...

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Prominent Hill mine

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by Oxiana Limited, later to become OZ Minerals. The deposit is an iron oxide copper gold style mineralisation. The mine, which cost A$1.15 billion to develop...

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Jungle cat

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Central Asia and proposed the name Felis (Felis) chaus oxiana. In the 1930s, Pocock reviewed the jungle cat skins and skulls from British India and adjacent...

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Kampir Tepe

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Alexandria-Oxiana lost 2,000 years ago re-discovered". akipress.com. Retrieved 2020-10-31. "History of civilizations of Central Asia, v. 2: The Development...

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Cape cobra

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"conspecifics". In the same study period conducted at De Hoop, Cape cobras were seen scavenging and feeding on carrion on two occasions. Both were road-killed snakes...

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