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One's Company A Journey To China
Author: Peter Fleming

ONES COMPANY tA Journey to China By PETER FLEMING ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY THE AUTHOR NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS J 934 IN THE PE1 RIVER r. ORGKS The ITW Luiuhts. CHARLES SORtBNERS SONS Printed in the Umted Stat AU rigMs mrrvcd, JVi part of Ms way r pr d ffd in TO THE MEMORY Or R. F. WARNING TO THE READER THE recorded history of... more » Chinese civilization covers a period of four thousand years. The population of China is estimated at 450 millions. China is larger than Europe The author of this book is twenty-six years old He has spent altogether, about seven months in China. He does not speak Chinese. FOREWORD THIS book is a superficial account of an unsensational journey. My Warning to the Reader justifies, I think, its superficiality. It is easy to be dogmatic at a distance, and I dare say 1 could have made my half-baked conclusions on the major issues of the Far Eastern situation sound con vincing But it is one thing to bore your readers, another to mislead themj I did not like to run the risk of doing both. I have therefore kept the major Issues in the back ground The book describes in some detail what I saw and what I did, and in considerably less detail what most other travellers have also seen and done. If it has any value at all, it is the light which it throws on the processes of travel amateur travel - in parts of the interior which, though not remote, are seldom visited, On two occasions, I admit, I have attempted seriously to assess a politico-military situation, but only a because I thought 1 knew more about those particular situations than anyone else, and because if they had not been explained certain sections of the book would have made nonsense. For the rest, I make no claim to be directly instructive. One cannot, it is true, travel through a country without finding out something about it and the reader, following vicariously In my footsteps, may perhaps learn a little. But not much I owe debts of gratitude to more people than can con veniently be named, people of all degrees and many nation FOREWORD alities. He who befriends a traveller is not easily forgotten, and I am very grateful indeed to everyone who helped me on a long journey. p TER FLEMING . London, 1934 Note. Some of the material contained in this book has appeared in the columns of The Times, The Spectator and Life and Letters. My thanks are due to the Editors of those journals for permission to reproduce it here in a different form. 12 CONTENTS PART I MANCHUKUO FACE I BOYS WILL BE BOYS 19 i j II INTO RUSSIA 24 r III THE MIRAGE OF MOSCOW 29 1 IV DRAMA 37 J V TRANS-SIBERIAN EXPRESS 44 P VI FLOREAT MONGOLIA 2 VII CRASH 59 VJIII HARBIN 67 IX PXJ YI 72 f X WINGS OVER MUKDEN 82 to XI GEISHA PARTY 92 XII JEHOL 102 XIII PRAYERS 108 XIV AN AFTERNOON WITH THE GODS 114 Q XV GARRISON TOWN I2O T XVI REUNION IN CHINCHOW 125 XVII PAX JAPONICA 129 XVIII FLYING COLUMNJ 134 XEB THE FIRST DAY S MARCH 140 XX GETTING WARMER 146

ISBN-13: 9781406742022
ISBN-10: 1406742023
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 356
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Publisher: Maclachan Bell Press
Book Type: Paperback
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