Europe in the Looking-Glass Palestine Seeking greater strength

Seeking greater strength

In January

and the move to define Israel as an exclusively Jewish state – all of them hot topics which will continue to be relevant in future peace talks

it is here that Byron’s remarkable skill as a travel writer isfirst revealed

when read in their entirety

Europe in the Looking-Glass Palestine Seeking greater strengthIn 1941, Robert Byron was killed when the ship on which he was travelling was torpedoed in the North Atlantic. Four years earlier his book The Road to Oxiana hadbeen published, and it is for this seminal work that he is today best remembered. However, Byrons first book had been published some twelve years before that. In 1925, sent down from Oxford for misdemeanours and with little else to do, he had embarked with three friends on a car journey to