News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir (Library of Travel Classics) - Softcover

Fleming, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874772346 ISBN 13: 9780874772340

Publisher: Tarcherperigree, 1982

Synopsis

A description of the author's travels overland across China during 1935 includes his observations of the country's political turmoil and the way of life of its people

About this title

Review:

'Its entertainment value is immense. It will arouse great fury and cause much pleasure - an epic of adventure' - Harold Nicolson 'It confirmed Fleming's place in the front rank of travel writers... no modern work of travel has given me more pleasure... I have read it more times than I can remember' Daily Telegraph

About the Author:

Peter Fleming (1907-1971), the brother of novelist Ian Fleming, wrote for the London Evening Standard, the Spectator, the BBC, and the Times of London. His travels took him to Mexico, Brazil, Russia, China, Japan, Tibet, and Manchuria. He died in a hunting accident in Scotland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tarcherperigree
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0874772346
• ISBN 13: 9780874772340
• Binding: Paperback