First Russia, Then Tibet: Travels Through a Changing World (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) - Softcover

Byron, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848854242 ISBN 13: 9781848854246

Publisher: Barbara Ward & Associates, 2010

Synopsis

First Russia, Then Tibet Blending travel writing with the author's observations on the deeper political and social issues during 1931 and 1932, this title describes the eventual horrors of the Soviet Union and the downfall of the Raj. Full description

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Review:

"One comes away from reading him with a joyous consciousness of having seen for the first time a whole world of unsuspected things." -- Christopher Sykes

"Byron's skill at detail while delivering sweeping observations on the politics and turmoil of the times, is not only good fireside reading but it should be the aspiration of any serious writer attempting to define a journey instead of a trip." -- Kathleen Buckley

"He would prove hugely influential: on travel literature, on conservation, and on our appreciation of Eastern cultures." -- Richard Canning, The Independent

"The beguiling and heightened spell of sensory being which Stark is capable of conjuring, is something likewise cast by her travelling contemporary, Robert Byron. In First Russia, Then Tibet, he breaches the dogma-ridden bastion of early Stalinist Russia... Down to earth, he is always passionate, politically astute, and exhibits startling powers of description that never flag." -- The Scotsman 2010 Travel Review "A timely reissue...well worth reading as a window on a vanished world" -- John Ure, Times Literary Supplement "...The book demonstrates why, in this changed world, affecting writing of any age should be cherished" -- Alastair Vere Nicoll, Oxford Today, Hilary Term edition

About the Author:

Robert Byron was one of the twentieth century's greatest travel writers as well as a noted art critic and historian. Byron's The Road to Oxiana is considered by many to be the first example of great travel writing; Paul Fussell said that it is to the travel book what "Ulysses is to the novel between the wars and what The Waste Land is to poetry"; Bruce Chatwin described it as "a sacred text, beyond criticism", carrying his copy, "spineless and floodstained" on four journeys through Central Asia. Robert Byron also wrote Europe in the Looking Glass, The Byzantine Achievement and The Station. He died in 1941, at the age of 35, when the ship on which he was travelling was torpedoed by a German U-Boat in the Atlantic.

About this edition

• Publisher: Barbara Ward & Associates
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1848854242
• ISBN 13: 9781848854246
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256