Name: The Road to Oxiana (en Inglés)
SKU: 1876518
Price: 29.14 USD
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Author: Paul Fussell
ISBN: 9780195325607

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Robert Byron

Prefacio de

Rory Stewart

Introducción de

Paul Fussell

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Año

2007

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

291

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.7x14x1.9 cm

Peso

0.41 kg.

ISBN

0195325605

ISBN13

9780195325607

Categorías

Oriente próximo
Literatura de viajes

The Road to Oxiana (en Inglés)

Robert Byron (Autor) · Rory Stewart (Prefacio de) · Paul Fussell (Introducción de) · Oxford University Press · Tapa Blanda

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In 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana, near the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. Throughout, he kept a thoroughly captivating record of his encounters, discoveries, and frequent misadventures. His story would become a best-selling travel book throughout the English-speaking world, until the acclaim died down and it was gradually forgotten. When Paul Fussell published his own book Abroad, in 1982, he wrote that The Road to Oxiana is to the travel book what "Ulysses is to the novel between the wars, and what The Waste Land is to poetry." His statements revived the public's interest in the book, and for the first time, it was widely available in American bookstores. Now this long-overdue reprint will introduce it to a whole new generation of readers. This edition features a new introduction by Rory Stewart, best known for his book The Places InBetween, about his extensive travels in Afghanistan. Today, in addition to its entertainment value, The Road to Oxiana also serves as a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now inaccessible to most Western travelers, and a nostalgic look back at a more innocent time.

Paul Fussell

(Introducción de)

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Estados Unidos, 1924. Historiador, escritor y profesor de literatura en la Universidad de Pennsylvania, quedó marcado por sus experiencias, a los diecinueve años como oficial de infantería en Francia en 1945. Desde entonces ha buscado desmitificar el romanticismo de la batalla estudiando en profundidad las dos guerras mundiales en sus publicaciones, estudios que le han valido el National Book Award for Arts and Letters o el National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

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