In the footsteps of Marco Polo: the journey that changed William Dalrymple’s life
Taken from the introduction to the 25th anniversary edition of William Dalrymple’s first book In Xanadu: A Quest, and first published in The Spectator on 24 June 2015 At the end of the windy, rainy April of 1986, towards the end of my second year at university, I was on my way back to my […]