Colin Thubron on ‘The Road to Oxiana’
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 06.27.07 | 8:11 AM ET
Travel writer Colin Thubron celebrates Robert Byron’s classic 1937 travel narrative The Road to Road to Oxiana in Saturday’s Guardian. “Witty, lyrical, erudite, combative, it still strikes the reader with a vivid contemporary immediacy,” he writes. “Composed in the form of a random diary, its deceptively conversational tone was, of course, the result of meticulous craft. Spiky character sketches and farcical conversations (replete with musical notation) are interlaced with news clippings, scholarly digressions and some of the most precise and beautiful architectural descriptions in the language.”
Related on World Hum:
* No. 2: ‘The Road to Oxiana’ by Robert Byron
* Truth in Oxiana
* ‘No Particular Place to Go’: A BBC Radio Celebration of Great Works of British Travel Literature
* No. 23: ‘Behind the Wall’ by Colin Thubron
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
