Fleming, Peter
News From Tartary - A Journey From Peking To Kashmir
Jonathan Cape, 1945, 16th impression. Cloth, VG. 384pp, b/w frontis, 7 b/w plates, folding coloured map, cloth a little rubbed. Hardback , no dustjacket.
¶ The book recounts the author's 3,500 mile journey from China to Kashmir in 1935. As a Times correspondent, he made the journey to ascertain what was happening in Tunganistan, in the wake of the Kumul Rebellion. He made the journey with Ella Maillart [ 1903 - 1997 ] the Swiss adventurer. Peter Fleming [ 1907 - 1971 ] British adventurer, journalist, soldier and travel writer. He was the elder brother of Ian Fleming.

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Keywords: travel, china, chinese history