Collins 1989 Reprint

In the summer of 1986 two Cambridge history undergraduates set out on Marco Polo's famous journey across Central Asia beginning in Jerusalem, to the city of Xanadu in Mongolia. This account traces their experiences in the war-torn Middle East and along 1500 miles of the Silk Road to their eventual destination. At once funny and knowledgeable, Dalrymple's account tells the story of the expedition in the best tradiiton of English travel writing. Whether teaching Scottish reels in Turkish villages, crossing the Indus on inflated animal hides or hidden within a lorryload of coal in China's forbidden territories, the tales are told with an infectiously exhilarating blend of eloquence, wit, poetry and delight...