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One's Company

A Journey to China in 1933

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One's Company

By: Peter Fleming
Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker
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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.

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Peter Felmming's sarcastic, self depreciating account of his travels through China in 1933 offer both a fascinating insight into pre-communist China as well as a far better understanding of how China was viewed by the outside world. His humorous narrative is both compelling and disarming.

A compelling narrative of 1930's China

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