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Average rating2.5
The edition I read is titled Xanadu - Marco Polo and Europe's Discovery of the East. I guess I had expected it to be a bit more about Xanadu, but we were largely done on that topic by chapter 6.
It is heavily about Kublai Khan, and his interactions with Marco Polo, which is fine, but leaves me now wondering what else John Man's Kublai Khan book has to offer.
This is probably the least focussed of Man's books I have read. It suggests to me there probably wasn't enough subject matter to keep it focussed on Xanadu, or on Marco Polo, and it ended up a little broad.
It was interesting enough, but didn't really take me beyond any of the other Marco Polo focussed books that travel authors have written.
Just scraped into a 3 star rating, but only just...