News from Tartary [antikvár]

PREFACE TO THIS EDITIONThis was a long journey. It achieved nothing ofimportance. Its claim (if it has any) on the interestof young readers today lies in the methods by whichit was carried out. These were, even by thestandards of 1935, primitive; they differed in fewparticulars, and no essentials, from those used byMarco Polo. They were the only methods which,in those days, we or anybody else could have used.I hope that my narrative will convey some of thepleasure, and some of the often hard-learnt lessons,which we gained from traversing a remote territoryon the backs of ponies or on foot. It seems unlikelythat anybody will have the luck to do this sort ofthing again.Nett lebed, 1962PETER FLEMING