Entering the secret world of Kublai Khan's Xanadu.(Entertainment)

The Star (South Africa) | May 14, 2009 | Copyright

BYLINE: Trish Murphy

Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu

by Laurence Bergreen

Quercus R195

'In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree..." Most people know the name Kublai Khan from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem (where it was spelt "Kubla"), which is studied more for the fact that the poet was interrupted while writing it, than for its content.

Since Coleridge was famously writing in an opium-stoked daze, it has long been assumed that the Xanadu described in the poem is a fantasy with sexual connotations and all the ...

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