Long Journey Through China

In the 1930s, Peter Fleming was a famous journalist, always ready to participate in difficult travels through isolated and unknown regions of the world. The accounts of his travels are written in a particularly elegant style and with a lot of humour to tell the small misfortunes that here and there happens to all travellers. Among his books, it is specially interesting
News from Tartary: A Journey from Pekin to Kashmir. There Fleming tells the long journey he made in the company of the Swiss explorer Ella (Kini) Maillart, who was as stubborn as Fleming himself. In those years the north of China was invaded by Japan, and there was a Civil War between the communist guerrilla and the nationalist Chinese government, so it didn't seem a good idea to even think in such a journey. But Fleming and Maillart were determined to travel to India through Sinkiang territory. Old trucks and camels were the means of transportation used by the travellers who most of the time were running away from Chinese authorities in this Tintin like adventure.