News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir

News from Tartary is the account of an illegal, six—month journey from Beijing to Kashmir in 1935. The physical resilience which took Fleming and his Swiss companion, Ella Maillart, across some of the world’s most inaccessible mountain passes and desert regions was matched by bravery and luck. China was then caught up a vicious civil war while trying to repel the invading Japanese, while in eastern Turkestan charismatic Muslim warlords were allying themselves with Soviet Russia. None of the...