In Xanadu
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In Xanadu
William Dalrymple
Travel & Adventure
James Mustich
Aug 1, 2018
How many readers, fascinated by the allure of Marco Polo’s travels on the Silk Road, have daydreamed of following in the fabled Venetian’s footsteps? Dalrymple was a twenty-two-year-old Cambridge student when he made the trip, backpacking across Asia along Polo’s seven-hundred-year-old, twelve-thousand-mile route. Adventures large and small met him and his various companions at every stage of the trip, and the author’s style is supple enough to engagingly capture both current realities and the spectral presences of the past. This is as fine a literary excursion as you could ever hope to, well, book.
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Lisa Wardein Roberts
Feb 26, 2020
2 didn't like audio voice, too dramatic
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James Romano
May 2, 2020
You need to read. Learned a lot. I really enjoyed.
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