Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 83 results for “robert byron”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Station

    Enriched edition. Journeys of the Mind: Exploring Human Existence at a Bustling Railway Hub

    by Robert Byron, Nigel Blackwood ...
    In 'The Station,' Robert Byron masterfully intertwines travel narrative with a philosophical exploration of culture and society. Written in the early 20th century, the book adopts a lyrical style that vividly captures the landscapes and encounters of his journeys while reflecting on the impact of modernization on traditional ways of life. Byron's keen observational skills and humor infuse the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • First Russia, Then Tibet [Illustrated Edition]

    by Robert Byron ...
    Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change.In Russia, which was stricken by famine, Lenin had just died, Stalin's dictatorship was in its infancy and the Great Terror had yet to begin. Having taken the first commercial flight to India, which took an astounding seven days, Byron was thrown into the tumultuous ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Byzantine Achievement

    An Historical Perspective A.D. 330 to 1453

    by Robert Byron ...
    Narrated by Synthesised voice - male ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 42 min

    Discover the rich tapestry of Byzantium in Robert Byron's The Byzantine Achievement, a masterpiece that invites readers into the heart of one of history’s most enduring and misunderstood civilizations. Byron masterfully portrays Byzantium not as a mere relic of the past, but as a vibrant cultural nexus that shaped the foundations of modern Europe and the Near East.This engaging narrative explores ... Read more

    $7.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • First Russia, Then Tibet

    by Robert Byron ...
    First published in 1933, this text is a fascinating account of Robert Byron's travels in the Russia, India and Tibet of the time. The narrative of travels and descriptions of environment are first-rate and beautifully written. One of the great early examples of the travel-writing genre! ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Road to Oxiana

    by Robert Byron ...
    The Road to Oxiana is the brilliant account of Robert Byron’s ten-month journey to Iran and Afghanistan in 1933–34. This classic travelogue is considered by many modern travel writers to be the first example of great travel writing. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Station (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Mount Athos Travelogue of Byzantine Art, Orthodox Monasteries, and Sacred Greek Geography

    by Robert Byron, Keira Dovewick ...
    Robert Byron's The Station is a vivid early travel narrative centered on Mount Athos, the monastic peninsula where Byzantine Christianity, art, and ritual survived with extraordinary intensity. Combining itinerary, aesthetic manifesto, and comic observation, the book moves through monasteries, landscapes, icons, libraries, and conversations with monks. Its prose is brisk, ironic, and visually ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Rhyme A Dozen, A - Heaven

    12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic

    by Rupert Brooke, W B Yeats, Ben Jonson, Christina Georgina Rossetti, D H Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Lord Byron, Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, Stephen Crane, Vachal Lindsay ...
    Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Patricia Rodriguez ...

    Unabridged

    20 min

    ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.01 - A Rhyme A ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Byzantine Achievement (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Exploring Byzantine architecture and mosaics, imperial power and medieval art through scholarly travel narrative and cultural heritage

    by Robert Byron, Nigel Blackwood, Evelyn Dixon ...
    First published in 1929, The Byzantine Achievement is Robert Byron's ardent reappraisal of a culture long caricatured in English letters. Blending art history, cultural polemic, and the eyewitness verve of a traveler, he follows the thread from late antiquity to the Renaissance, showing how Byzantine theology, aesthetics, and governance sustained and fertilized Europe. With lapidary description of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Road to Oxiana

    Illustrated

    by Robert Byron ...
    The Road to Oxiana is a travelogue by Robert Byron, first published in 1937. It is considered by many modern travel writers to be the first example of great travel writing. The word "Oxiana" in the title refers to the region along Afghanistan's northern border.Writer Paul Fussell wrote that The Road to Oxiana is to the travel book what "Ulysses is to the novel between the wars, and what The Waste ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Top 50 Poems, The

    Fifty of the finest poems ever written

    by Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Burns, Tagore, W B Yeats, Walt Whitman, William Blake, William Shakespeare ...
    Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 13 min

    Sometimes we just want the best. But that involves choices, judgements, decisions. And that all depends on our feelings, our mood at the time.Even more so with Poetry. Would we like a little more pathos, or love, or humour with that? Can we only choose one Keats? And ’If’? Surely Kipling wrote something else?So difficult to decide. This one or that? Is it easier to choose your fifty favourite ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Europe in the Looking Glass

    by Robert Byron ...
    First published in 1926 by George Routledge and Sons: London, now public domain. In 1925, after being kicked out of Oxford University for “misdemeanors” and mooching aimlessly around London, Robert Byron and two friends left for the Continent. As with his famous namesake before him, this would be a Grand Tour, but one done by car. Byron’s wry and informative account languished out of print for ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Station

    Athos: Treasures and Men

    by Robert Byron, John Julius Norwich ...
    The Station follows three high-spirited young men visiting the monasteries on Mount Athos in 1927. They examine treasures 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. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD