Product Description

Peter Fleming and Eva Maillart set out across a China torn by civil war to journey through Sinkiang to British India. This account also offers an insight into the last days of the Great Game, when Britain and Russia still faced each other across a Central Asia in a state of anarchy.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #511461 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-23
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 394 pages

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Review
'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

About the Author
PETER FLEMING, THE brother of Ian Fleming, was born in 1907. After a stint on the Spectator as a literary editor he had his first taste of adventure on a trip to South America in the early 1930s. He travelled widely in China during the 1930s, where he reported on the civil war there. During World War II he was involved in intelligence operations around the world. During the 1950s and 1960s he produced a string of works of popular history. He died in 1971.