Robert Byron was an English travel writer, best known for his travelogue The Road to Oxiana. He was also an art critic and historian.
Byron and Desmond Parsons in China sometime before 1937
Shrine of Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa, photographed by Robert Byron. Photograph held in The Courtauld Conway Library of Art and architecture.
Robert Byron's British passport issued in 1923
The genre of travel literature or travelogue encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs.
Handwritten notes by Christopher Columbus on a Latin edition of The Travels of Marco Polo
Claife Station, built at one of Thomas West's 'viewing stations', to allow visiting tourists and artists to better appreciate the picturesque English Lake District.