News from Tartary is the account of a journey from Peking to Kashmir, made in 1935 by that legendary adventurer, Peter Fleming. It lasted seven months and covered about 3,500 miles. The route chosen by Fleming and his companion, adventurer and writer Ella Maillart, took them westwards across a China torn by civil war to Xinjiang and then south to British India. It had been eight years since any foreigner had crossed Xinjiang. During that time few of those who entered that inhospitable and politically volatile region, which was under the control of a warlord supported by Stalin's Red Army, came out alive. After entering the lands of the Tartars by a little-known route and following the course of the ancient Silk Road, they reached Kashgar before crossing the Pamirs into India. Written with style and elegance, as well as acute observation and gentle irony, this is not just a description of a part of the world still difficult to visit, but of the last days of the Great Game, when Britain and Russia vied with each other for control of the unruly fiefs of Central Asia.
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"News from Tartary" describes a phenomenally successful attempt that legendary adventurer Peter Fleming made to travel overland from Peking to Kashmir.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Part One: Heading for Trouble
Part Two: The Skin of Our Teeth
Part Three: Into the Blue
Part Four: No Man's Land
Part Five: No Picnic
Part Six: The Desert Road
Part Seven: The Roof of the World
Notes
Index
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'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 'An observer of great wisdom and learning - ' Simon Winchester 'One reads him for literary delight and for the pleasure of meeting an Elizabethan spirit allied to a modern mind - but he is also an observer of penetrating intellect.' Vita Sackville-West, Spectator
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"News from Tartary" describes a phenomenally successful attempt that legendary adventurer Peter Fleming made to travel overland from Peking to Kashmir.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781780765037
Publisert
2014-08-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Barbara Ward & Associates
Vekt
452 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
416
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