Trips
Graham Coster, 26 July 1990
In Xanadu: A Quest
by William Dalrymple.
Collins, 314 pp., £14.95, July 1989,0 00 217948 2 Show More
by William Dalrymple.
Collins, 314 pp., £14.95, July 1989,
Silk Roads: The Asian Adventures of André and Clara Malraux
by Axel Madsen.
Tauris, 299 pp., £14.95, April 1990,1 85043 209 0 Show More
by Axel Madsen.
Tauris, 299 pp., £14.95, April 1990,
At Home and Abroad
by V.S. Pritchett.
Chatto, 332 pp., £14.95, February 1990,0 7011 3620 0 Show More
by V.S. Pritchett.
Chatto, 332 pp., £14.95, February 1990,
“... really separates a masterpiece of the genre like Greene’s from a frequently attractive work like William Dalrymple’s In Xanadu is that Greene seeks no pretext or context or subtext for his trip other than himself. Dalrymple’s, on the other hand, is both complicated and distracted by his notion of retracing the ... ”