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The Station follows three high-spirited young men as they visit twenty monasteries on Mount Athos in 1927. They examine treasures, photograph frescoes and sketch the courtyards and those who live in them. They swim ecstatically off the sparkling, deserted beaches, climb mountains, talk and share meals with monks and transcribe these conversations with relish. For life is very different for a celibate hermit on Mount Athos. Time has no meaning:...

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A local bestseller, freshly revised and updated to especially reflect changes of the city due to the pandemic: information about buildings, businesses, and other locations, about 300+ updates.Go-to resource for exploring Berkeley on foot.Hundreds of photos and maps highlighting hundreds of points of interest. Includes locations of residences where famous Berkeleyans lived like Anne Rice, Philip K. Dick, Thornton Wilder, and many more.Showcases...

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»Das Meisterwerk der Reiseliteratur.« - Bruce ChatwinNach seiner Grand Tour durch Italien bis nach Griechenland (Europa 1925, Band 373) und seiner Reise in die Mönchsklausen der Orthodoxie (Der Berg Athos. Reise nach Griechenland, Band 422) machte sich Robert Byron 1933 auf den Weg nach Oxiana. Die Stationen seiner Forschungsreise führten ihn von Venedig über Palästina und Jerusalem bis nach Persien und Afghanistan. Die europäischen Klassiker ...

Auf dem heiligen Berg Athos ist die Zeit seit dem byzantinischen Reich stehen geblieben - von dort berichtet der exzentrische Klassiker der europäischen Reiseliteratur mit scharfer Zunge und britischem Witz.Im Privatabteil eines Nachtzugs durch Frankreich und in der ersten Klasse eines Dampfschiffs von Marseille weiter nach Piräus: Robert Byron reist standesgemäß. Er ist gerade 22 Jahre alt und hat soeben sein erstes Buch veröffentlicht, Europ...

In 1933, Robert Byron set off from Venice with his friend Christopher Sykes to explore the architecture of the Middle East. Their long and arduous journey took them from Cyprus and Jerusalem to Syria, Iraq, Persia and Afghanistan, and finally Oxiana, a tiny country around the River Oxus, the Greek name for the river Amu Darya, which snakes down from Russia into Afghanistan. They travel by any means necessary (truck, camel, horses and foot), an...

Finally, there's a book that shows Africa for what it really is-Your Best Bet Gold-Mine Global Market For The Next 50 Years!Mark Byron is a successful British/Nigerian investment banker who takes us on a journey through this phenomenal Economic Giant-from the financial corridors of Cairo to the petroleum politics of Lagos, from the real-estate/construction boom in Cape Town and to the high tech revolutions in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Accra. ...

First published in 1931, Robert Byron's 'Essay on India' evaluates the state of colonial rule in India and analyses the contemporary problems facing the country. Based upon his travels in 1929 as a correspondent for the Daily Express, it evaluates the successes and failures of British colonialism in the region.

First published in 1929, this study offers an historical perspective on the Byzantine Empire, from the establishment of Constantinople by Emperor Constantine around 330 AD, through to the fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD.

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A group of "enlightened" people gather in a small mid-western town to discuss the coming cataclysm: the capsizing of the earth and the end of life on earth as we presently know it, including specific instructions and training in survival tactics for such a dire event for those that do survive, and suggestions of how life might continue on the "new" earth.

In 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut to Oxiana, between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. This is his captivating record of his encounters, discoveries, and frequent misadventures along the way.

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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 Damascu...

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Southern California is many things to many people. A continuous influx of new people, new ideas, new interests, and different life styles creates a mind-boggling diversity. This story covers the life of an individual who is part of that diverse mosaic - an East Coast transplant who comes to Southern California by way of the US Marine Corps and San Diego. This book is a chronology of indelible memories that begin with family life in the depress...

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