{"product_id":"2026200013675-secondhand-the-road-to-oxiana","title":"The Road To Oxiana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the golden age of travel writing, few works have matched the electrifying brilliance of The Road to Oxiana, Robert Byron's masterpiece account of his 1933–34 journey through Persia and Afghanistan in search of the origins of Islamic architecture. Byron chronicles his odyssey with razor-sharp wit and insatiable intellectual curiosity, guiding the reader through crumbling desert fortresses, moonlit mosques, and the labyrinthine bazaars of Persia, all while pursuing his passionate obsession with the great monuments of the Timurid era — culminating in the legendary minarets of Oxiana.\n\nWidely regarded as one of the finest travel books ever written, The Road to Oxiana is an intoxicating blend of art history, political satire, and lyrical observation, rendered in Byron's distinctive voice — caustic, erudite, and irresistibly alive. Paul Fussell famously placed it alongside Ulysses and The Waste Land as one of the supreme literary achievements of the modernist era, and this handsome Folio Society edition, introduced by Geoffrey Moorhouse, restores the text to its rightful place as a monument of twentieth-century prose. For anyone who has ever felt the pull of distant horizons and ancient civilisations, this is an indispensable and utterly transformative read.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49160930590939,"sku":"2026200013675-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/2dbfd030-064b-4255-89a2-bc422279279c.png?v=1787188434","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013675-secondhand-the-road-to-oxiana","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}