Here is William Dalrymple’s highly praised and greatly entertaining account of his 1986 trip made while students at Cambridge, which retraced Marco Polo’s route throughout land from your Church from the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to Xanadu. With him, he took a phial of Holy Essential oil, 600 pounds and Laura until Lahore, and Louisa following that to Xanadu. Used on a multitude of types of transportation and long lasting four a few months, the journey will take him across Israel, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and finally China.