Robert Byron

First Russia, Then Tibet (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1933, this text is a fascinating account of Robert Byron's travels in the Russia, India and Tibet of the time. The narrative of travels and descriptions of environment are first-rate and beautifully written. One of the great early examples of the travel-writing genre! 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Reading Essentials
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788834111932
• Artikelnr.: 56684411

Autorenporträt

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. He 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.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: RUSSIA I. The New Jerusalem II. Creed and Observance III The
Russian Aesthetic IV. Moscow V. Leningrad VI. Veliki Novgorodm VII. Early
Russian Painting VIII. Yaroslavl and Sergievo IX. The Ukraine PART II:
TIBET I. The Air Mail II. The Desert Lands III. Anglo-Himalaya IV. Into
Tibet V. The Plains VI. The Pleasures of Gyantse VII. Lunching Out VIII.
Winter Comes Early IX. A Tibetan Pilgrimage