Folio: 288 illustrated pp. Djkt shelf wear, small closed tear. a journey through history to modern day.Pictorial endpapers. Many colour and B/W illustrations. Roads to Xanadu is a journey through world history that follows the different roads taken by nations to achieve wealth and power. It traces the different roads of social and technological change that have been followed in East Asia and the West. From the time of Marco Polo to the late eighteenth century.
