First Russia, Then Tibet: Travels Through a Changing World [Audiobook] download free by Robert Byron
- Listen audiobook: First Russia, Then Tibet: Travels Through a Changing World
- Author: Robert Byron
- Release date: 2011/9/29
- Publisher: I.B.TAURIS & CO. LTD.
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781848854246
- Rating: 9.68 of 10
- Votes: 878
- Review by: Winston Stamps
- Review rating: 8.42 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/5
- Duration: 3H9M15S in 256 kbps (51.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-12
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MP3, AU, WMA, MPC, FLAC, TTA, MPEG4 (compression JAR, ZIP, DMG, LZO, LZ, CBC, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 256
- Includes a PDF summary of 24 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 16M35S (4.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 was yet to begin. Having taken the first commercial flight to India, which took a week, Byron was thrown into the tumultuous last years of the British Raj. Gandhi was imprisoned while rioting and clashes between Hindus and Muslims had become commonplace. Finally Byron entered Tibet, the forbidden country. Exploring the Land of Snows, he saw Tibet as it was when the then Dalai Lama was still ensconced in the Potala Palace, twenty years before China's invasion. Blending classic travel writing with passionate observations on the deeper political and social issues of the time, Byron writes with uncanny prescience of the eventual horrors of the Soviet Union and the downfall of the Raj. As a piece of travel literature, 'First Russia, Then Tibet' is compelling and beautifully-written. As a portrait of these countries in the 1930s, it is invaluable.Ultimately, it illuminates the constant quest for meaning that underscored Robert Byron's life and travels.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Guidebooks, Travel Writing
- Download servers: Torrent, Teamplace, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, MEGA, SeedPeer, Robust Files, FileServe, FreakShare. Compressed in JAR, ZIP, DMG, LZO, LZ, CBC, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 19.25 USD
- Dimensions: 130.05x199.14x20.57mm
- Weight: 276.69g
- Printed by: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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