First Russia Then Tibet 

Robert Byron

Byron, who died young in the Second World War, was one of the Brideshead set immortalized by Evelyn Waugh, but he was also the foremost travel writer of his age. He is best known for The Road to Oxiana, a description of his journey in 1933-34 through modern Iran and Afghanistan.

Book comes with press cutting of Byron's obituary.

Publisher: London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd., 1933.
FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp.328. With colour frontispiece. Illustrated with photographs. Original green cloth, titled in gilt. Moderate shelf wear to spine ends and corners. Front end paper has strip of binding tape on spine crease. Pasted on press cutting of Byron's obituary. ST (Sunday Times) 21/2/41. Colour frontis with tissue guard, 24 b&w plates. Remains of sticker on back end paper. 328 pages. Good