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The Making of William Del Rempel
William Del Rempel is the author of Xanadu, a new book about medieval history. He travelled around India and China in an attempt to complete Marco Polo's journey from Scotland to Jerusalem when he was 22 years old. His travels included hitchhiking across Italy, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece,. Turkey, down through Syria, Jordan, and into Israel, Palestine. The first Westerners to visit his ruin palace in over a century? Is it true? I don't know because there wasn't a sort of visitors book there. But certainly there are no other records of anyone since 1930s having made it there. And one has claimed that you were immortalised by Coleridge five years