To Peking: A Forgotten Journey from Moscow to Manchuria – Peter Fleming

A slow, spread out read of Peter Fleming‘s revived diary of his 1934 journey through the Caucasus, Central Asia Siberia, Mongolia, Manchukuo and China, which falls between One’s Company and News from Tartary (perhaps it’s time for a reread of that)

Simon Winchester’s foreward made the 1930’s privileged tone more bearable.

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