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“One's company : a journey to China” (Publication, 1934)

Year

1934

Text

Fleming, Peter. One's company : a journey to China. Illustrated with photographs taken by the author. (New York, N.Y. : C. Scribner ; London : Jonathan Cape, 1934).
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Fleming, Peter. Mit mir allein eine Reise nach China. (Berlin : Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, 1938),
[Bericht seiner Reise mit der Transsibirischen Eisenbahn durch China bis Hong Kong 1931 im Auftrag des "The Spectator"]. (Flem2)

Type

Publication

Contributors (1)

Fleming, Peter  (London 1907-1971 Black Mount, Rgyllshire) : Schriftsteller, Journalist, Reisender

Subjects

History : China - Hong Kong / Literature : Occident : Great Britain : Prose / Travel and Legation Accounts

Chronology Entries (1)

# Year Text Linked Data
1 1934 Fleming, Peter. One's company : a journey to China [ID D3337].
Peter Fleming reist 1933 im Auftrag des The Spectator mit der Transsibirischen Eisenbahn nach Mandschuguo, quer durch China bis Hong Kong.
Foreword :
The book is a superficial account of an unsensational journey. My Warning to the Reader justifies, I think, its superficiality. It is easy to be dogmatic at a distance, and I dare say I could have made my half-baked conclusions on the major issues of the Far Eastern situation sound convincing. But it is one thing to bore your readers, another to mislead them ; I did not like to run the rusk of doing both. I have therefore kept the major issues in the background.
The describes in some detail what I saw and what I did, and in considerably less detail what most other travellers have also seen and done. If it has any value at all, it is the light which it throws on the processes of travel – amateur travel – in parts of the interior, which, though not remote, are seldom visited.
On two occasions, I admit, I have attempted seriously to assess a politico-military situation, but ony because I thought I knew more about those particular situations than anyone else, and because if they had not been explained certain sections of the book would have made nonsense. For the rest, I make no claim to be directly instructive. One cannot, it is true, travel through a country without finding out something about it ; and the reader, following vicriously in my footsteps, may perhaps learn a little. But not much.
I owe debts of gratitude to more people than can conveniently be named, people of all degrees and many nationalities. He who befriends a traveller is not easily forgotten, and I am very grateful indeed to everyone who helped me on a long journey.

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1 2005 Oxford dictionary of national biography : http://www.oxforddnb.com. Publication / ODNB
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  • Source: Gill, William John. The river of golden sand : being the narrative of a journey through China and eastern Tibet to Burmah. With illustgrations and ten maps from original surveys by capt. William Gill ; with an introductory essay by col. Henry Yule. Vol. l-2. (London : J. Murray, 1880). [Bericht seiner Reise von Hong Kong nach Beijing, Liaodong (Liaoning), zur Chinesischen Mauer, bis Chongqing (Sichuan), Chengdu (Sichuan), Tibet bis Dalifu (Yunnan) 1876].
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    https://archive.org/details/cu31924096046507. (MalS1, Publication)
  • Source: Halliday, L[ewis] S[tratford] T[ollemache]. The siege of Peking (30 May-24 June 1900). In : Globe and Laurel ; vol. 8, no 73 (1901). (HalL10, Publication)
  • Source: Hickey, William. Memoirs of William Hickey. Ed. by Alfred Spencer. Vol. 1-4. (London : Hurst and Blockett, 1913-1925). [Darin enthalten ist der Bericht über seine Reise nach Indien und zurück über China nach London 1769].
    Vol. 1 : https://archive.org/details/memoirsofwilliam015028mbp.
    Vol
    . 2 : https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.38676.
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  • Source: Hogarth, Paul. Looking at China : with the journal of an artist : drawings of a nation in transition. (London : Lawrence and Wishart, 1956). Hogarth ist der erste englische Künstler, der nach China geht. (Hoga1, Publication)
  • Cited by: Asien-Orient-Institut Universität Zürich (AOI, Organisation)
2 Zentralbibliothek Zürich Organisation / ZB