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In Xanadu chose "In Xanadu" as his book of the year in the "Spectator" and wrote, "William Dalrymple's "In Xanadu" carries us breakneck from a predawn glimmer in the Holy Sepulchre right across Asia... It is learned and comic, and a most gifted first book touched by the spirits of Kinglake, Robert Byron and E. Waugh." Sir Alec Guinness agreed, and in the "Sunday Times" called the book "The delightful, and funny, surprise mystery tour of the year." In Xanadu In Xanadu: A Quest is a 1989 travel book by William Dalrymple. "In Xanadu" traces the path taken by Marco Polo from