In Xanadu

A Quest

William Dalrymple author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Published:27th Sep '90

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Winner of the 1990 "Yorkshire Post" Best First Book Award and a Scottish Arts Council Spring Award

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.

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 Coleridge’s Xanadu itself.
At once funny and knowledgeable, In Xanadu is in the finest tradition of British travel writing. Told with an exhilarating blend of eloquence, wit, poetry and delight, it is already established as a classic of its kind.

‘Brilliant’
Spectator

‘Glorious’
Patrick Leigh Fermor

‘Dalrymple is probably the best travel writer of his generation’
Daily Mail

‘The future of travel writing lies in the hands of gifted authors like Dalrymple’
Sara Wheeler, Independent

  • Winner of Yorkshire Post Literary Award Best First Work Category 1989

ISBN: 9780006544159

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 21mm

Weight: 250g

320 pages