A real-life adventure that inspired countless travellers in fact and fiction, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Robert Byron's "The Road to Oxiana" includes an introduction by Colin Thubron. In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to O[...]

Computational inference is based on an approach to statistical methods that uses modern computational power to simulate distributional properties of estimators and test statistics. This book describes computationally intensive statistical methods in a unified presentation, emphasizing techniques, su[...]

Best known as the author of 'The Road to Oxiana' (published in 1937), Robert Byron developed his considerable writing skills on a travel book which has not been in print since 1926. 'Europe in the Looking Glass' describes a journey Byron made with three friends, driving across Europe between two wor[...]

Mount Athos, the spiritual heart of Eastern Orthodox Monasticism, is perhaps the most sacred and mysterious place in Greece: an autonomous state, where no woman can set foot, which has its own calendar and its own time. This ruggedly beautiful peninsula in Macedonia boasts a history that stretches b[...]

Vägen till Oxanien är en klassisk reseskildring. Den utkom 1937, fyra år efter Robert Byrons resa i Centralasien - från Palestina till floden Oxus i norra Afghanistan som blev resans vändpunkt - där han på ett kunnigt, intensivt, underhållande (tur att man slipper umgås med honom alltför n[...]

Ésta es la tortuga que se metío en la charca y se comío a la serpiente que se deslizo de una rama y se tragó al pez que nadaba tras la ranita.¿Salta ranita salta! Este alegre cuento repetido hará saltar y cantar de contento a todas esas "ranitas que conoces.[...]