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In Xanadu
William Dalrymple
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Description for In Xanadu
Paperback. One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of 'Return of a King', which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 b/w plates (16pp), (1 x 16pp). BIC Classification: 1FB; 1FC; 1FPM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 256.
One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of ‘Return of a King’, which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize.
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 ... Read more
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Publisher
Flamingo
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780006544159
SKU
V9780006544159
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-27
About William Dalrymple
In Xanadu won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award and the Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award, and was shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize. Dalrymple’s second book, City of Djinns, won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. His third, From the Holy Mountain, was published in ... Read more
Reviews for In Xanadu
‘Brilliant’ Spectator ‘Glorious’ Patrick Leigh Fermor ‘Dalrymple is probably the best travel writer of his generation’ Daily Mail ‘The future of travel writing lies ... Read more