Waiting for his exam results to come
through, Dalrymple decides to fill in
his summer break by travelling. But the
trip he plans is no light-hearted student
jaunt - he decides to retrace the epic
journey of Marco Polo from Jerusalem
to Xanadu, the ruins of the palace of
Kubla Khan, north of Peking. Intelligent
and funny, In Xanadu is
travel writing at its best.
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