In Xanadu: A Quest

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One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years. At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan's stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. This is an account of a quest which took him and his companions across the width of Asia, along dusty, forgotten roads, through villages and cities full of unexpected hospitality and wildly improbable escapades, to Coleridge's Xanadu itself. At once funny and knowledgeable, In Xanadu is in the finest tradition of British travel writing. Told with an exhilarating blend of eloquence, wit, poetry and delight, it is already established as a classic of its kind.

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Published
27/09/1990

Publisher
Flamingo

ISBN
9780006544159

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'Brilliant' Spectator 'Glorious' Patrick Leigh Fermor 'Dalrymple is probably the best travel writer of his generation' Daily Mail 'The future of travel writing lies in the hands of gifted authors like Dalrymple' Sara Wheeler, Independent

UK Kirkus review

An absorbing account of an eccentric pilgrimage to that place of fertile ground and incense-bearing trees where Kubla Khan did a stately pleasure-dome decree. Starting in Jerusalem, Dalrymple and his party travelled across the breadth of Asia, their guide book being the slightly out-of-date Travels of Marco Polo, first published 700 years ago. The ruins of Kubla Khan's pleasure-dome, by the way, are still there on the Mongolian Steppes. (Kirkus UK)