Rug Pundits » Rory Stewart http://rugpundits.com From the other side of the fence Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:54:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Byron – Chatwin – Stewart – Bouvier http://rugpundits.com/2010/12/25/byronchatwinstewar/ http://rugpundits.com/2010/12/25/byronchatwinstewar/#comments Sat, 25 Dec 2010 18:31:38 +0000 Jakob Steiner http://rugpundits.com/?p=748 William Dalrymple has written a thoughtful review of the recent publication of letters by Bruce Chatwin. Apparently he once wrote the foreword for Robert Byron’s Road to Oxania – in the newest edition Rory Stewart is doing that job. Considering their eccentricity and British background that’s a fair choice and good reason to finally order this book. A writer who in his writing is definitely closer to Chatwin than Stewart was Nicolas Bouvier, whose Way of the World I can recommend.

While ordering Byron’s book, I remebered to get Alexander Burnes’ Travels to Bokhara which Amazon, nor Abebooks stocks – it’s available online though.

So much for Chatwin-like namedropping …

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