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In Xanadu

By: William Dalrymple
Narrated by: Michael Maloney
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Here is William Dalrymple's highly praised and greatly entertaining account of his 1986 trip made while a student at Cambridge, which retraced Marco Polo's route across land from The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to Xanadu. With him, he took a phial of Holy Oil, 600 pounds and Laura until Lahore, and Louisa from there to Xanadu. Taken on a multitude of types of transport and lasting four months, the journey takes him across Israel, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and finally China.
Read by Michael Maloney.

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Storytelling at a premium. The narrator infused the written words with all the wonder, adventure and charm you would expect to find sitting around a fireplace listening to a magical story.

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William Dalrymple wrote this as a young man, a university finals student -and continues to be a brilliant historian. These books are incredibly detailed in research and he obviously has made this his lifelong passion. I have met him three times now at the Writers Festival in Jaipur and in Sri Lanka. I have his other signed books and I’m currently listening to the gold Road on Audible..

A brilliant travellersTale

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