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‘A Solar Emperor’: Robert Byron Flies East (2020)
Book Chapter
Woodward, G. (2020). ‘A Solar Emperor’: Robert Byron Flies East. In M. McCluskey, & L. Seaber (Eds.), Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain (179-199). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60555-1_9

In 1929 Robert Byron flew to India to report on the new Indian Air Mail service for Lord Beaverbrook’s Daily Express. This chapter traces Byron’s journey via France, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq and Iran, as told through... Read More about ‘A Solar Emperor’: Robert Byron Flies East.