604pp. Purple cloth-covered boards; white titles on spine; map endpapers. 12mo. Sun-faded spine, bumped bottom edges, corners and spine ends. Top text block edge tanning, remaining edges starting to tan. Volume shaken. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and tight.
News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir is a 1936 travel book by Peter Fleming, describing his journey and the political situation of Turkestan (historically known as Tartary). One's Company, which was first published in 1934, records his journey, day by day, from London, through Moscow and along the trans-Siberian Railway in the early part of the 20th century. Peter Fleming was the elder brother of Bond creator, Ian Fleming.
