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In Xanadu: A Quest

Name: In Xanadu: A Quest
Brand: Knopf Publishing Group
SKU: 9780307948885
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Contributors:

William Dalrymple

Publisher:

Knopf Publishing Group

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Travel

Book Subcategory:

Essays & Travelogues, Asia

Book Topic:

East

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Release Date:

2012-09-18

ISBN 13:

9780307948885

Weight:

0.74 lbs

Size:

8.00 x 5.24 x 0.67 inches

Pages:

352

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In Xanadu: A Quest by William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple's award-winning first book: his classic, fiercely intelligent and wonderfully entertaining account of his journey across Marco Polo's 700-year-old route from Jerusalem to Xanadu, the summer palace of Kubla Khan.

Journey Along the Ancient Silk Road

At the age of twenty-two, Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kubla Khan's stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. As he and his companions travel across the width of Asia--crossing through Acre, Aleppo, Tabriz, Tashkurgan, and other mysterious and sometimes hellish places--they encounter dusty, forgotten roads, unexpected hospitality, and difficult challenges.

Award-Winning Travel Literature

Stylish, witty, and knowledgeable about everything from the dreaded order of Assassins to the hidden origins of the Three Magi, this is travel writing at its best. This paperback edition from Knopf Publishing Group showcases Dalrymple's ability to blend historical research with contemporary adventure narrative, following the footsteps of Marco Polo through the Middle East and Central Asia.

About the Author

William Dalrymple is the author of seven acclaimed works of history and travel, including City of Djinns, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book award; the bestselling From the Holy Mountain; White Mughals, which won Britain's most prestigious history prize, the Wolfson; and The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography. He divides his time between New Delhi and London, and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The Guardian. www.williamdalrymple.uk.com