Robert Byron (n Wembley, Middlesex then; 1905 - m near Cape Wrath, Scotland;.. 1941) was an English writer and traveler, known for his travel book Journey to Oxiana (The Road to Oxiana, 1937) .1 also highlighted as an art critic and historian. Educated at Eton and at Merton College, University of Oxford, Byron's life was a tireless traveler (Greece, Soviet Union, India, Tibet, China, Middle East ...) whose masterpiece Travel Oxiana refers to remarkable erudition, great sense of humor and lyricism uncontainable a trip in the interwar period between Venice and India, describing the Islamic monuments of Persia and Afghanistan. He died when his ship was torpedoed by the Nazis during World War II