> Marco Polo’s awestruck description of the palace of Kublai Kahn at Xanadu belongs to the same genre.
Uh, what? Do they mean Kubla Kahn, a poem about a fictional world by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which came to him in an opium dream? When did Marco Polo come into it?
Kublai Khan, an emperor of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century.
Interesting article, including the subtitle, "Their case against frugality", may help people understand what the article will be about. The article title alone is quite vague.