Full name: One's Company: A Journey to China in 1933

Author: Peter Fleming Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781531842871 1531842879

Catching all the fascination and humour of travel in out-of-the-way places, One's Company is Peter Fleming's account of his journey through Russia and Manchuria to China when he was Special Correspondent to The Times in the 1930s. Fleming spent seven months with the "object of investigating the Communist situation in South China" at a time when, as far as he knew, "no previous journey had been made to the anti-communist front by a foreigner", and on its publication in 1934, One's Company won widespread critical acclaim. Packed with classic incidents—brake-failure on the Trans-Siberian Express, the Eton Boating Song singing lesson in Manchuria—One's Company was among the forerunners of a whole new approach to travel writing. Similar books: Behind the Wall by Colin Thubron Frontiers of Heaven by Stanley Stewart On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham Fried Eggs with Chopsticks by Polly Evans Night Train to Turkistan by Stuart Stevens News from Tartary by Peter Fleming Forbidden Journey by Ella Maillart Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux Slow Boats to China by Gavin Young From Heaven Lake by Vikram Seth The River at the Center of the World by Simon Winchester Red Dust by Ma Jian Lost on Planet China by J. Maarten Troost Country Driving by Peter Hessler China Road by Rob Gifford