Description: News from Tartary is the account of an illegal, six-month journey from Beijing to Kashmir in 1935.
Review Quotes:
'... an Elizabethan spirit allied to a modern mind ...' Vita Sackville-West, The Spectator
'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.' Nigel Buxton, Daily Telegraph
'... an observer of great wisdom and learning ...' Simon Winchester