ONES COMPANY- A Journey to China By PETER FLEMING. Originally
published in 1934. 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 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. PETER FLEMING . London, 1934. Contents include:
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
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