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William Dalrymple: In Xanadu (Paperback, 1999, Flamingo) 4 stars

Review of 'In Xanadu' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

An entertaining account of 1.5 pairs of sarcastic British college students retracing Marco Polo's route from Jerusalem to the ruins of Xanadu. It is definitely a story of the type, intrepid white people explore the primitive ways of the rest of mankind, and they do fairly frequently seem to be idiots themselves, but I enjoyed all of it.