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In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana--the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. The Road to Oxiana offers not only a... read more

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First Sentence

VENICE, August 20th, 1993.-Here as a joy-hog: a pleasant change after that pension on the Giudecca two years ago.

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  1. Robert Byron (Author)

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