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In XanaduOne 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 Khans 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

each chosen cover design is distinct in the way it complements the energy of the album’s music with its own visual rhythms of frame

was published in 1938

But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon

But he feels only scalding hatred for Gabriel

a malicious old woman and a mid-century Jack the Ripper

perpetrators and bystanders he tells the story of fascism and its legacy which still

and what we can reasonably expect their future capabilities to be

Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East

they're impossible to predict

hot-air balloon festival and Menuhin Festival of music

funk and dub created throughout the 1970s at the Studio One music lab situated at 13 Brentford Road

raw and vulnerable as ever