Robert Byron
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Oct 15, 2024 |
fivebooks.com | Robert Byron |Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (1899 – 1986) was an Argentine short story writer. “I don’t think there will ever be a better writer on uncertainty and science than Borges.” Kate Marvel“He wrote about the world and from a global perspective at a time, pre-internet, when it was difficult to do.” Mohsin Hamid
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Sep 4, 2024 |
rb.gy | Robert Byron
SUMMER TERMTuesday, 4 May, 1926In May there was a General Strike in Britain which looked like it would delay the beginning of term. But not so: 'Today Crawford has wired that term starts as arranged. I went out on my bicycle to see the stricken areas and found the traffic quite fantastic.'Tuesday, 11 May, 1926On Thursday Evelyn went back to Aston Clinton. There: 'I found five boys and those the ugliest and dullest. Crawford went away early on Friday morning.
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Aug 11, 2024 |
rb.gy | Robert Byron
ALL EVELYNED OUTOrTHE EVELYN WAUGH CONFERENCE OF 2011OrSCOTT-KING'S MODERN EUROPE REVISITEDARRIVALWe get to Downside School, Somerset, at 9pm, hoping that we’re not too late for dinner. The private Catholic school is massive, dark and quiet. Is anybody there? A couple of security guards are. They know nothing about any Waugh conference but are aware that something was going on in the middle of the school earlier in the evening and are willing to escort me there.
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Jun 17, 2024 |
heraldscotland.com | Robert Byron
The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men, Robert Byron, Eland Books, £14.99 Robert Byron was the Rupert Brooke of travel writing. Part of the Brideshead group that included Evelyn Waugh and Harold Acton, he died young in 1941 when the ship taking him to Persia as a war correspondent was torpedoed off the north-east coast of Scotland.
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May 24, 2024 |
fivebooks.com | Robert Byron
Travel books are a popular genre in the 21st century, combining personal observations and emotions with detailed descriptions and journeys through interesting places. In English, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a pioneer, writing about her trip to Scandinavia, in her Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Much earlier, Ibn Battuta (born in Tangier in 1304) had written about his travels.
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