About this title: This is an account of a journey along the Chinese-Afghanistan border - the ancient silk route - retracing the 1934 journey described by classic travel-writer Peter Fleming in "News from Tartary". Chinese Turkistan, or Tartary, is one of the most remote and least populated areas on earth, a place of physical extremes, containing both the world's highest point, Mount Everest, and its second lowest, the Turfan depression. In between, lurks the dreaded Takla Makan desert, a 125,000 square-mile expanse of desolation with temperatures that average over 110 degrees in summer and 5 below in winter - ...
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Description: /Dust Jacket Included. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 236pp, map endpapers, clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0333480503. read more
Edition: First Paperback
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Paladin, London
Date Published: 1990
Description: 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a little creased & rubbed); pp. 236, with a map. A very good copy. Retracing Peter Fleming and Ella Maillart's journey from Peking to Kashgar in 1934, the subject of 'News from Tartary'. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan
Date Published: 03/11/1988
ISBN-13:9780333480502ISBN:0333480503
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MacMillan-1988
Date Published: 1988
Description: First edition / first printing Good / good. Good condition ex-library hardback with heavy lean and edge worn boards-usual stamps and marks, remains of pastedowns to endpaper-clean and free from marks internally on the text-good, unclipped dust jacket with slight edge wear, protected by clear jacket-good reading copy. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Paladin, London
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780586089408ISBN:0586089403
Description: Very Good- 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. PB, pictorial card wraps, VG-/--, 236p. Moderate rubbing to edges and small creases to corners of covers, inside has age tanning to edges of txt block, else square, clean and tight with no markings. Four young men set out to retrace the 1934 journey of Peter Fleming across Chinese Turkistan (News From Tartary). Bedeviled by all sorts of hazards along the way, manmade and natural, in all kinds of conveyances, this story becomes classic travel writing. 250g when ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MACMILLAN
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780333480502ISBN:0333480503
Description: Ex-Library Hardback with D/J. USED, BUT IN GOOD CONDITION. Ex-library. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MACMILLAN
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780333480502ISBN:0333480503
Description: Ex-Library Published by Macmillan in 1988. Hardcover. Number of pages: 240. Ex. Library copy-usual stamps and marks. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. #8435190 Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: PALADIN
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780586089408ISBN:0586089403
Description: Published by Paladin in 1990. Paperback. Number of pages: 240. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. #8457033 Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MACMILLAN
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780333480502ISBN:0333480503
Description: Ex-Library USED, BUT IN GOOD CONDITION. Ex. Library book. usual stamps and marks Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
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