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London: Collins, 1989. Illustrated, octavo, pp (2), 314, very clean internally, grey cloth in very good condition. An attractive copy, without dustwrapper. [The book traces the path taken by Marco Polo from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to the site of Shangdu, famed as Xanadu in English literature, in Inner Mongolia, China. The author compares the old time splendour of the cities on the Silk Route to their present physical and political conditions, and thereby illustrates the changes. Of special note is the part on his passage through the then revolution-torn Iran. He also describes the bureaucratic tangle he got into while getting a permit for China via the Northern Areas in Pakistan, and spending a couple of days in the Kohistan valley near Besham, on the banks of the river Indus in Pakistan, which is supposedly the last area where Alexander the Great might have stopped during his conquests. People of different ethnicities are also mentioned in the book, mainly the present-day…
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London : Collins, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Not price-clipped. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 314p,[16]p of plates : ill, maps,ports ; 24cm. Subjects; Middle East Description and travel. China Description and travel. Asia Description and travel 1951- Guide-books. Asia Description and travel. Dalrymple, William Travel Asia; history. Asia ; Guidebooks.
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London: Collins, 1989 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a little rubbed & creased, slight marking to rear endpapers); pp. [viii (last blank)], 310. Trade paperback with cover photographs and advance praise from Dervla Murphy, John Julius Norwich and others. A very good copy of the proof edition of the author's first book, now a Central Asian travel classic.. First Edition - Uncorrected Proof. Soft Cover. VG+.
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