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Nonfiction · Travel literature

The Road to Oxiana

Robert Byron
1937 · 291 pages

Byron crossed Persia and Afghanistan in the 1930s hunting domes and minarets, and the diary he kept is funny, rapturous, and cruel about everyone he meets. Paul Fussell called it travel writing's Ulysses.

★ 6.8