
A Problematic Subject: Afghanistan in Two Contemporary Travel Accounts
Author(s) -
Kerry Featherstone
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
e-rea
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1638-1718
DOI - 10.4000/erea.609
Subject(s) - admiration , subject (documents) , history , travel writing , literature , architecture , art , computer science , archaeology , library science
Afghanistan has long been the subject of writing by British travellers. Robert Byron’s classic The Road to Oxiana, a twentieth-century text which has influenced several generations of travel writers, focuses on Afghanistan as a place of marvels, both in terms of culture and architecture. Bruce Chatwin’s open admiration for Byron led him to write the introduction to a late-twentieth century edition of The Road to Oxiana; he also wrote a recommendation of one of the books that this article disc..