biography
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| lived:
| (1905–41)
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| biography:
| Writer on travel and architecture, Byzantinist, and aesthete, born in Wiltshire, S England, UK. He studied at Oxford, where he collected Victoriana. He is best remembered for his travelogues, which include First Russia, Then Tibet (1933) and The Road to Oxiana (1937), which won the Sunday Times Literary Award. He died during World War 2 when his ship was torpedoed. |
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