Description
Robert Byron was born in 1905, and educated at Eton and Merton College, Oxford. He died in 1941, during the Second World War, when the ship he was serving on was torpedoed by a U-Boat off Cape Wrath. Byron's The Road to Oxiana is considered by many modern travel writers to be the first example of great travel writing. Award-winning travel writer and novelist Colin Thubron was born in London on 14 June 1939. Among his books are Mirror to Damascus (1967), The Hills of Adonis: A Quest in Lebanon (1968), Jerusalem (1969), The Lost Heart of Asia (1994) and In Siberia (1999). Colin Thubron is a regular contributor and reviewer for magazines and newspapers including The Times , The Times Literary Supplement and the Spectator . He lives in London.
| EAN: | 9780141442099 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 05.07.2007 |
| Autoren: | Byron, Robert |
| Keyword: | jerusalem; tehran; afghanistan; byron; beirut; colin thubron; middle east; baghdad; prisoners of geography; sapiens a brief history of humankind; ernest hemingway; the night manager; rose tremain; oxford handbook of clinical medicine; the reader; driving over lemons; tom kerridge dopamine diet; seven brief lessons on physics; the girl who saved christmas; tom kerridge diet book; robbie robertson; in the shadow of the mountain; books lean in 15; clinical handbook oxford; dopamine diet kerridge; writing magazine; travel non-fiction; nonfiction; history |
| Fachschema: | Naher Osten / Reisebeschreibung |
| Imprint-Titels: | Penguin Classics |
| Länge: | 195 mm |
| Breite: | 128 mm |
| Höhe: | 30 mm |