In Xanadu: a quest

By - Dalrymple, William

Floor - Floor 4

Published - Collins, London, 1989

ISBN 10 - 0143031074

ISBN 13 - 9780143031079

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Asia Description and travel

Shelf No - 1

Call Number - 910 DAL

Physical Description - 314 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes - includes index

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In Xanadu is, without doubt, one of the best travel books produced in the last 20 years. It is witty and intelligent, brilliantly observed, deftly constructed and extremely entertaining& Dalrymple s gift for transforming ordinary humdrum experience into something extraordinary and timeless suggests that he will go from strength to strength Alexander Maitland, Scotland on Sunday

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