Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. photo plates. Flemming's diary from his travels through Caucasus to Samarkand, the Turksib Railway, Valdivostok, Manchuria, Mongolia and Tokyo. A difficult journey in 1934. Made without the approval of the Chinese government one of the most difficult trips possible in the 1930s. The route took Fleming through some of the most desolate country of central Asia, and among some of the world's most exotic peoples. Fleming tells the story in his inimitable manner--dismissing the difficulties with irony and describing events and developments with humor and brilliant color. Filled with endurance and adventure, with strange encounters in the wilderness, with tales of Chinese, Mongols, and Indians, Fleming's account has become a classic of travel writing as well as a definitive description of a vanished way of life. . A Very Good copy. Some foxing of prelims. Dust wrapper edge worn, rubbed Good only.