Peter Fleming

News from Tartary : A Journey from Peking to Kashmir

7,50

Na zalihi

Težina 359 g
Format 11 × 18 cm
Autor

Izdavač

Mjesto izdanja

Aylesbury

Godina

1980

Broj stranica

394

Uvez

Meki

Stanje knjige

Vrlo dobro

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In 1935 Peter Fleming, an editor for the London Times and, interestingly, Ian Fleming’s older brother, set out from Peking for Kashmir. It was a 3500 mile journey across the roof of the world. He chose as his traveling companion Ella Maillart, a beautiful Swiss journalist. Fleming is one to underemphasize difficulties. He describes events and places in brilliant color and detail, also with great wit and humor. His story of the journey, a seven month odyssey through desert and upland, virtually uncharted, has become a classic of travel literature since its publication in 1936. No writer has given a keener picture of unchanging Tartary than has Fleming, and his description of Sinkiang reveals the last home of international intrigue, politics, violence and melodrama, where all foreigners are suspects and none welcome.