For most travellers, and all merchants, the road from China to India lies as it has lain for centuries, through Singkiang along that ancient Silk Road which is the most romantic and culturally the most important trade route in the history of the world. In 1935 Peter Fleming set out to travel that route, from Peking to Kashmir. It was a journey which swept him and his companion 3500 miles across the roof of the world. It took them seven months to complete the journey. They travelled across deserts and mountains, through ice ...
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For most travellers, and all merchants, the road from China to India lies as it has lain for centuries, through Singkiang along that ancient Silk Road which is the most romantic and culturally the most important trade route in the history of the world. In 1935 Peter Fleming set out to travel that route, from Peking to Kashmir. It was a journey which swept him and his companion 3500 miles across the roof of the world. It took them seven months to complete the journey. They travelled across deserts and mountains, through ice and sand and into some of the most beautiful, mysterious and dangerous areas in the world. His account of that journey is filled with endurance and adventure, with strange encounters in the wilderness, with tales of Chinese, Mongol tribesmem and Indians, and with a spirited sense of humour and courage.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. Damaged book. Slightly damaged in some way typically, a grazed corner or torn cover.
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Good in good dust jacket. First Edition. A hardback First Edition in Good condition, clean and bright throughout. The partial dustjacket is scrap. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (the pictures you see on Alibris are NOT our own).
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VG. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (slightly rubbed & creased, mild toning to paperstock); pp. 394, [6 (pubs. advts. ], with illustrations + maps. A very good copy.
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VG. No Jacket. Small 8vo. original burgundy cloth gilt, tail edge uncut (slightly rubbed & bumped, prev. owner's name (crossed out) and stain from bookplate to FFE, occ. spots to fore-edge; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 384, with 57 plates & a folding map (slight misfold with paper clip stains, exposed edges a little toned & nicked). A very good copy of the first issue of this classic travel narrative.
Peter Fleming (brother to the creator of James Bond) was an hardworking, thoughtful writer who liked to pretend that he was indolent rake who somehow managed to toss off his books in between whiskeys. Fleming, then a correspondent for the London Times, invariably minimizes his own knowledge, celebrates his motives as trivial, and mocks any attempt to inflate his own bravery. His classic account, One's Company, of a journey into remote, war-torn Manchuria begins with the bogus claim, "This book is a superficial account of an unsensational journey." Instead it is one of a set of travel books that are among the best ever written. News from Tartary details a trip from Beijing to India through the Taklamakan desert in the middle of the Chinese civil war--an attempt to find out what was happening in a portion of the world that no European had been to in almost a decade. Via truck, horseback, mule, and on foot Fleming and his companion, an intrepid Swiss writer named Ella Maillart, traveled 3500 miles of very rough country. The book is funny without being whimsical, acerbic without being unkind, and, most of all, wonderfully evocative of a fascinating and now-vanished time and place. I would have given it five stars, but if I did that what could I say about something like War and Peace? I think Fleming would have approved this decision.
