The Road to Oxiana

“At once poetic, scholarly and acidly humorous, Robert Buyron’s account of his pilgrimage through Persia and Afghanistan in the 1930s, in search of the origins of Islamic architecture, is a masterpiece of the genre.
Bringing to life characters and landscapes with vivid authenticity, The Road to Oxiana is a passionate ode to the pursuit of adventure, and an evocative portrait of a heroic, visionary traveller.”