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This is a book about the history of manned space flight told through the lives and stories, the accounts and experiences of the men and women who’ve made the journey to space, all the astronauts and cosmonauts starting with Yuri Gagarin. It all began in the late 1950's with the soviet launch of an unmanned …
In Xanadu is William Dalrymple's first book. It’s an account of a journey in which he retraced, as near as possible, the path that was taken by Marco Polo from Jerusalem to Shangdu in China, the legendary summer home of Kubla Khan which, thanks to Coleridge, we all know as Xanadu. This journey took him …
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