In Xanadu

William Dalrymple's first travel book about his expereince straight out of University attempting to cross Asia first with one girlfriend then with another! William Dalrymple's highly praised and greatly entertaining account of his 1986 trip made when a student at Cambridge, which re-traced Marco Polo's route across land from Jerusalem to Xanadu. With him he took a phial of Holy Oil, £600, Laura to Lahore and Louisa thence to Xanadu.