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FREE NEWS FROM TARTARY PDF Peter Fleming | 424 pages | 28 Oct 2014 | I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd | 9781780765037 | English | London, United Kingdom Tartary - Wikipedia The lowest-priced brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item in its original packaging where packaging is applicable. Packaging should be the same as what is found in a retail store, unless the item News from Tartary handmade or was packaged by the manufacturer in non-retail packaging, such as an unprinted box or plastic bag. See details for additional description. Skip to main content. About this product. Stock photo. Brand new: Lowest price The lowest-priced brand- new, unused, unopened, undamaged item in its original packaging where packaging is applicable. Title: News From Tartary. Catalogue Number: Format: BOOK. See all 2 brand new listings. Buy It Now. Add to cart. About this product Product Information Originally published inNews from Tartary is the story of a journey from Peking through the mysterious province of Sinkiang, to India. Fleming tells the story in his inimitable manner, dismissing the News from Tartary with irony and describing events and developments with humor News from Tartary brilliant color, and his account is a classic of travel writing as well as a brilliant description of a vanished time and way of life. Additional Product Features Dewey Edition. Show More Show Less. News from Tartary Condition News from Tartary Condition. See all 7 - All listings for this product. We have ratings, but no written reviews for this, yet. Be the first to write a review. Best Selling in Nonfiction See all. Bill o'Reilly's Killing Ser. When Women Pray Hardcover T. Jakes Christian Inspirational No ratings or reviews yet. Save on Nonfiction Trending price is based on prices over last 90 days. You may also like. Ian Fleming Paperback Books. Paperback Publication Year News from Tartary Fleming. Paperback Ian Fleming Books. Paperback Books Ian Fleming Collectibles. Peter Straub Paperback Books. This item doesn't belong on this page. News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir by Peter Fleming, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. It's one of the best works of travel writing I have read. THe original cloth bound version with all of the photos and maps is News from Tartary. Misprint Aug 31, Interesting read. For the people of Xinjiang, it is quiet the what if: if the USSR made the region into an SSR in the s, it might have ultimately become a free nation today. Sobering news for those reading the reports out of Kashgar these days. Fleming writes with a good sense of humor, although not much happens in their journey bureaucracy was the greatest threat to their success. She went out to have a look at the surviving camels News from Tartary caught a whiff of rotting flesh; it came from the Prime Minister's camel, originally christened The Pearl of the Tsaidam and now known as The Pearl for short. Kini brought him into camp and we took his packsaddle off; on the spine between the humps an ancient sore News from Tartary the skin had reopened and was festering fast. We pegged his head down and with little help from the Turkis, who were hopeless with animals, Kini doctored it despite his bellows. It looked a terrible place, but she made such News from Tartary good job of it that it healed completely within a few days. There is a reason for the three stars, but on no accounts do 3 stars mean that this book is not worth your time. News from Tartary is a great book. Peter Fleming had a marvellous ability to write. This report of his travel from Beijing across China and into India via Kashmir is a fantastic News from Tartary of what it was like for a European to set out on a trip that very few people had accomplished before and that few adventurers have managed to describe to a Western readership since the days of Marco Polo. When Fleming set out on his trip inhe soon had to abandon his plans of travelling alone. Because of the political upheaval in China at the time - Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the rise of the Communist army - roads were blocked and warrants issued for anyone who did not have the right papers, the right connections, or the right demeanor. It was at this point that Fleming joined forces with Ella "Kini" Maillart, a Swiss traveller and writer, who had also planned to follow the Silk Road across China - by herself. Neither of them wanted to join forces, but the alternative for both News from Tartary have been to News from Tartary the trip. Maillart also wrote an account of this trip in her book Forbidden Journeybut unlike Fleming her outlook on the trip and the content of her observations are quite different. When reading News from Tartary from Tartary, I probably learned more about Fleming than about the people he meets and the countries he passes through. It is also good to remember that when Fleming set out on his trip, he worked as a political correspondent for The Times, and much of Fleming's interests in the book focus on the political and military situation in China. For example, Fleming News from Tartary into quite some detail about the political leaders he meets, and troop movements he observes. As it turns out, however, his enthusiasm for political analysis may not have made up for a lack of expertise or indeed a lack of understanding of Chinese culture and society. And this is really the crux of my hesitation to rate this book any higher: Fleming tried hard to transcend the stifled English attitude and open up to experience this different world that News from Tartary threw himself into, but he never really manages to fully do this. As a result, the book reads like a boy's own adventure story - which it is, of course - but which could have been so much more in that his preoccupation with the British perspective seems to have blinded him to the marvels and wonders of the people and landscape he took so much trouble to encounter. BrokenTune Aug 21, This is probably the best travel narrative ever written about China News from Tartary Owen Lattimore's 'The Desert Road to Turkestan' is a close second and has influenced News from Tartary great deal of subsequent writing about the region--not in content, but in style. Fleming presents himself as a bumbling amateur traveller, a mild eccentric, and someone who has only the vaguest News from Tartary what's going on. Later writers, attracted no doubt by the fact that this book has stayed in print for 80 years, have taken this as justification to write narratives which revel in their own News from Tartary. But Fleming's amateurishness is merely a pose, and the book is full of humorous detail on life in China at that time, backed by sound journalism and knowledge of the political situation. It's also full of perceptive observations on the people he meets and their behaviour, guaranteed to bring a smile to the face of the modern traveller when coming across their latter day counterparts, both Chinese and expatriate foreigner. Their aim is to get news from News from Tartary conflict- torn Chinese province that no one has heard from in two years. It's a kind of intrepid and dangerous travel that wouldn't be likely these days; they travel by train, lorry, camel, donkey, horse, and on foot; at each News from Tartary they risk being arrested or shot as spies, or being turned back. The political commentary was pretty impenetrable to me at this distance, and you do have to tolerate 30s British colonial attitudes to other countries and ethnic groups. However, most of it is about the day to day travel experience, and this is done very well. He manages to capture the occasional tedium of travel e. He is interested in the people around him, both those they meet on the way and their various guides on the journey. I enjoyed reading about his travel companion and at some stage I'll try reading her version of events [b:Forbidden Journey Forbidden Journey Ella K. There is something of the troubled background of Chinese Turkistan, concretely and indirectly, something of the evasive situation in which neither China nor Russia quite comes to the fore. Humor -- originality -- spirited story telling characterize this, but there isn't quite the sparkle of the earlier books. Charkhlik Revolt. Ethnic issues in China. First East Turkestan Republic. Military history of the Soviet Union. Soviet invasion of Xinjiang. Home Groups Talk More Zeitgeist. I Agree This site uses cookies to News from Tartary our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms. News from Tartary by Peter Fleming. Members Reviews Popularity Average rating Mentions 10 62, 3. The journey News from Tartary seven months and covered about 3, miles. It had been eight years since anyone had crossed Xinjiang; in between those who had entered this inhospitable and politically volatile area--under the control of a warlord supported by Stalin's Red Army--seldom left alive. Entering the province by a little known route and following the path of the Silk Road, they ended up in Kashgar before crossing the Pamirs to India. Beautifully written and superbly observed, this is News from Tartary simply an account of a part of the world few of us will ever see, but also a marvellous insight into the last days of the Great Game, when Britain and Russia still faced each other across a Central Asia ina state of anarchy.