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by Lucy Butler and Robert Byron

Robert Byron is best remembered now for The Road to Oxiana. Less well-known is that, like many of his generation, notably Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, he was an entertaining letter-writer. He also had much opportunity to write, travelling widely as he did in pursuit of his enthusiasm for Byzantine and Islamic art and architecture. Some of his travels he turned into books; The Station in which he recounts his journies to Mount Athos;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719549213
• ISBN13: 9780719549212
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: John Murray Publishers
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.