The Road to Oxiana

by Byron, Robert; Stewart, Rory; Fussell, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780195325607
• ISBN10: 0195325605
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In 1933 the delightfully eccentric Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut and Jerusalem.

Author Biography

Robert Byron was born in England in 1905 into a family distantly related to Lord Byron. He attended Eton and Merton College, Oxford, and wrote several travel books before his untimely death in 1941, while serving as a correspondent for a London newspaper during World War II.

Table of Contents

Venice	p. 19
s.s. Italia	p. 20
Cyprus
Kyrenia	p. 22
Nicosia	p. 24
Famagusta	p. 25
Larnaca	p. 27
s.s. Martha Washington	p. 27
Palestine
Jerusalem	p. 28
Syria
Damascus	p. 38
Beyrut	p. 39
Damascus	p. 40
Irak
Baghdad	p. 45
Persia
Kirmanshah	p. 49
Teheran	p. 50
Gulhek	p. 53
Teheran	p. 54
Zinjan	p. 55
Tabriz	p. 58
Maragha	p. 61
Tasr Kand	p. 62
Saoma	p. 64
Kala Julk	p. 65
Ak Bulagh	p. 66
Zinjan	p. 67
Teheran	p. 69
Ayn Varzan	p. 76
Shahrud	p. 77
Nishapur	p. 78
Meshed	p. 79
Afghanistan
Herat	p. 84
Karokh	p. 108
Kala Nao	p. 110
Laman	p. 114
Karokh	p. 116
Herat	p. 116
Persia
Meshed	p. 119
Teheran	p. 123
Teheran	p. 125
Kum	p. 133
Delijan	p. 133
Isfahan	p. 134
Abadeh	p. 137
Shiraz	p. 137
Kavar	p. 141
Firuzabad	p. 144
Ibrahimabad	p. 149
Shiraz	p. 157
Kazerun	p. 157
Persepolis	p. 159
Abadeh	p. 169
Isfahan	p. 170
Yezd	p. 178
Bahramabad	p. 181
Kirman	p. 181
Mahun	p. 182
Yezd	p. 184
Isfahan	p. 184
Teheran	p. 185
Sultaniya	p. 192
Teheran	p. 192
Shahi	p. 195
Asterabad	p. 197
Gumbad-i-Kabus	p. 199
Bandar Shah	p. 202
Samnan	p. 203
Damghan	p. 204
Abbasabad	p. 205
Meshed	p. 205
Kariz	p. 213
Afghanistan
Herat	p. 216
Moghor	p. 224
Bala Murghab	p. 231
Maimena	p. 233
Andkhoi	p. 241
Mazar-i-Sherif	p. 243
Kunduz	p. 260
Khanabad	p. 264
Bamian	p. 267
Shibar	p. 271
Charikar	p. 274
Kabul	p. 275
Ghazni	p. 277
Kabul	p. 280
India
Peshawar	p. 283
The Frontier Mail	p. 285
s.s. Maloja	p. 285
England
Savernake	p. 286
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