Intro -- About the Author -- Bookreview -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Part I Heading for Trouble -- I Zero Hour -- II Heroine -- III Two's Company? -- IV The Forbidden Province -- V Exiles and Armaments -- VI Nightmare Train -- VII Railhead -- VIII Fits and Starts -- IX A Lorry and the Liu Pan Shan -- X Open Arrest -- Part II The Skin of Our Teeth -- I The Mountain Road -- II Defeat? -- III Confined to Barracks -- IV The Great Lamasery -- V Escape from Officialdom -- VI The Good Samaritans -- Part III Into the Blue -- I Travelling Light -- II The Prince of Dzun -- III The Demon's Lake -- IV The Caravan Marches -- V Winds and Wild Asses -- VI Night-March to the End of the World -- Part IV No Man's Land -- I The Lost City -- II Patience -- III Empty Days -- IV The Good Companions -- V Travelling Blind -- VI Borodishin Takes Charge -- Part V No Picnic -- I The Gorges of the Boron Kol -- II Lost -- III The Turbaned-Heads -- IV Birthday -- V Casualties -- VI We Say Good-Bye to Slalom -- VII Grass, Men, News -- VIII Thalassa Thalassa -- IX Brave New World -- X Rule Britannia -- Part VI The Desert Road -- I Dirty Work -- II The Red Army Lends a Hand -- III Russia Racketeers -- IV The New Imperialists -- V Cherchen -- VI Thirst -- VII Such Quantities of Sand -- VIII A Cuckoo-Clock in Keriya -- IX Rebels Don't Care -- X Khotan -- XI The Vanished Leader -- XII The Last of Tungan Territory -- XIII Hoboes on Horseback -- Part VII The Roof of the World -- I Kashgar-Les-Bains -- II Wings Over Turkistan -- III Into the Pamirs -- IV The Last Town in China -- V The Russian Agent -- VI The Pass of a Thousand Ibex -- VII News from Home -- VIII A Thousand Welcomes -- IX Sahibs -- X Gilgit at Last -- XI Last Lap -- XII Triumphal Entry -- Notes.

News from Tartary describes a phenomenally successful attempt that legendary adventurer, Peter Fleming made to travel overland from Peking to Kashmir. The journey took seven months and covered about 3,500 miles. With his companion, adventurer and writer, Ella Maillart, they set out across a China torn by civil war to journey through Xinjiang to British India. It had been eight years since anyone had crossed Xinjiang; in between those who had entered this inhospitable and politically volatile area - under the control of a warlord supported by Stalin's Red Army - seldom left alive. Entering the province by a little known route and following the path of the Silk Road, they ended up in Kashgar before crossing the Pamirs to India. Beautifully written and superbly observed, this is not simply an account of a part of the world few of us will ever see, but also a marvellous insight into the last days of the Great Game, when Britain and Russia still faced each other across a Central Asia in a state of anarchy.

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