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Epic journey retracing Kublai Khan's legendary realm.
"In Xanadu" isn't just a travel story; it’s an adventurous and culturally rich odyssey that might ignite your wanderlust. Dalrymple’s youthful zeal and his eloquent, often humorous narrative make the trials of his journey as compelling as the historic and poetic references peppering his path. If your soul yearns for travel and history told with a joyous voice, this book is your ticket to an armchair adventure through Asia’s heart.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780006544159
Authors:
William Dalrymple
Publisher: Flamingo
Date of Publication: 1999-01-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.98
(rated by 4101 readers)
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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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Epic journey retracing Kublai Khan's legendary realm.
"In Xanadu" isn't just a travel story; it’s an adventurous and culturally rich odyssey that might ignite your wanderlust. Dalrymple’s youthful zeal and his eloquent, often humorous narrative make the trials of his journey as compelling as the historic and poetic references peppering his path. If your soul yearns for travel and history told with a joyous voice, this book is your ticket to an armchair adventure through Asia’s heart.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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