Auteur: Byron Robert Byron

In 1927, at the age of 22, Robert Byron journeyed to Athos with his friends and embarked on an adventure whose influence would remain with him for the rest of his life. Mount Athos, the spiritual hea …

Blending classic travel writing with passionate observations on the deeper political and social issues of the time, Robert Byron writes with uncanny prescience of the eventual horrors of the Soviet U …

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 …