News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir (Marlboro Travel)

ISBN: 0810160714

Author: Fleming, Peter

Condition: New

[From back cover] Originally published in 1936, News From Tartary is the story of a 3,500-mile journey from Peking, through the mysterious province of Sinkiang, to India. Following one of the most difficult routes possible in the 1930s, the trip took Fleming and his fellow traveler, Kini Maillart, a young Swiss journalist, through some of the most desolate country of central Asia, over passes more than 15,000 feet high. through burning deserts, and into some of the world s most exotic places. Made without the knowledge of the Chinese government, the trip often endangered the lives of the travelers; Fleming, fortunately, proved adept th a .22-caliber rook rifle, and Maillarts amateur medical skills more than once put her with local residents. Fleming tells the story in his inimitable manner - dismissing the difficulties with irony and describing events and developments with humor and brilliant color. Filled with endurance and adventure, with strange encounters in the wilderness, with tales of Chinese, Mongols, and Indians, Flemings account of Tartary has become a classic of travel writing as well as a definitive description of a vanished way of life,