News from Tartary

副标题: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir

ISBN: 9780810160712

出版社: Northwestern University Press

出版年: 1999-10-31

页数: 384

定价: GBP 15.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

Armed with a rifle, six bottles of brandy, and Macaulay's History of England (but lacking a passport), Fleming set out from Peking for India in the 1930s via forbidden Xinjiang, and he reports, with typically British irony, the troubles he ran into. (The rifle came in handy.) If only all adventurers could write this well.