News From Tartary by Peter Fleming

News From Tartary by Peter Fleming

News from Tartary is the account of an illegal, six-month journey from Beijing to Kashmir in 1935. The physical resilience which took Fleming and his Swiss companion, Ella Maillart, across some of the world s most inaccessible mountain passes and desert regions was matched by bravery and luck. China was then caught up in a vicious civil war while trying to repel the invading Japanese, while in eastern Turkestan charismatic Muslim warlords were allying themselves with Soviet Russia. None of the foreign journalists who had attempted to report from this region over the previous eight years had come out alive. The relationship between Peter (reporting for The Times) and the adventurous Ella, with their different abilities and character, becomes a source of gentle fascination. For beneath their easy-going charm, both had that sliver of ice required of a writer and had already travelled alone in the region, setting down their separate adventures in Turkestan Solo and One s Company.

No modern traveller had made quite so romantic a journey before, none has made one sinceDaily Telegraph

Peter Fleming was the brother of Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series and was special correspondent for The Times. He was married to the actress Celia Johnson, best known for her role in the film Brief Encounter.

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ISBN 13	9781780602134
ISBN 10	1780602138
Title	News From Tartary
Author	Peter Fleming
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Eland Publishing Ltd
Year published	2026-05-26
Number of pages	400
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