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News from Tartary: A Journey from Peiking to Kashmir

1936

Creches in the Ukraine and wild boars in the Caucasus; the blue-tiled tomb of Tamerlane in Samarkand and the legendary dilatory Turksib Railway; forced labour gangs behind the Amur frontier gazing hungrily up at the train windows and the garrison-town squalor of Vladivostok; the smell of opium in Manchurian inns; Japaese soldiers firing at unseen bandits between the wheels of a train; little [...] The Silk Road takes — or used to take — you through Sinkiang to Kashgar and the Himalayan passes by one of two alternative routes; the first (a road now practicable for wheeled traffic) running along the line of oases which fringe the Takla Makan on the north below the foothills of the Tien Shan or Celestial Mountains; the second (sandier and less well watered) skirting the Takla Makan on the sout [...] Thomson-Glover the wife of the British Consul-General in Kashgar had been shot through the shoulder while standing on the terrace of the consulate and a doctor attached to the consulate had been killed. [...] There were no lights in the truck and in the absence of its doors which left a third of each side open to the frosty air the small moribund stove in the middle of the floor did not appreciably affect the mean temperature. [...] In the middle of the afternoon the train stopped beneath the massy walls of Sian the capital of Shensi and at that time the terminus of the Lunghai Railway.
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Pages
417
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.143755
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
1-10 Peter Fleming view
Foreword
11-14 Peter Fleming view
Part One. Heading for Trouble
15-68 Peter Fleming view
Part Two. The Skin or Our Teeth
69-104 Peter Fleming view
Part Three. Into the Blue
105-144 Peter Fleming view
Part Four. No Man’s Land
145-182 Peter Fleming view
Part V. No Picnic
183-242 Peter Fleming view
Part Six. The Desert Road
243-320 Peter Fleming view
Part Seven. The Roof of the World
321-381 Peter Fleming view
Index
382-384 Peter Fleming view

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