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mantaman0a 's review for:
The Road to Oxiana
by Robert Byron
While it's delightful to be able to connect with the wickedly sharp humour of someone long dead before you were even born, Byron's at times lengthy explanations on how rare certain monuments were require the background of an accomplished art historian, or architect to fully appreciate. Travel writing at one of its better examples, but pacing is uneven, oscillating between easy humour and awestruck wonder (which Byron artfully and kindly allows the uninitiated reader into) and extensive but unintroduced articulations on particular periods of say, Persian or Sassanid architecture.