Robert Byron (travel writer)
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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 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, and is considered one of the most influential trav
Robert Byron (travel writer)
…Robert Byron (26 February 1905 – 24 February 1941) was an English travel writer, best known for his 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 three children born to Eric…
Covers of The Road to Oxiana and The Station, published by John Lehmann. Second English editions 1949–1950, London, 1949