In Xanadu: A QuestOne 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