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In Xanadu
In Xanadu | William Dalrymple
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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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In Xanadu | William Dalrymple
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The author recreated Marco Polo‘s trek from the Vatican to Xanadu. His own trek through tyrannical Iran and communist China was likely as perilous as Polo‘s. It‘s an interesting travelogue but not as well written as Bernard Ollivier‘s books about walking the Silk Road. The narrator spoke so softly & fast I had to slow the audiobook down & hike the volume. There also were odd musical interludes that just didn‘t work. #letterX #litsyatoz

Texreader @Bookwormjillk This was book for X and it is also very short and really interesting. If you do audio, less than 3 hours. Just turn up the volume and slow it down. @Clwojick @StayCurious 2y
Bookwormjillk @Texreader thanks ☺️ 2y
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In Xanadu | William Dalrymple
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I‘ll start this audiobook tomorrow for #litsyatoz #letterX

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In Xanadu: A Quest (Text Only) | William Dalrymple
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An adventurous trek. Awesome book.

Had to take a break from everything for a few days due to some emergency at home. And there was a flood scare too. We were lucky to escape from the flood waters but some of our people were not. But no problem. We shall overcome.