News from Tartary is good; One's Company I think his best, now available I see from the (cough) download sites.Guest999 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:57 amNews from Tartary (incidentally, I think the woman from Le Monde who travelled with him (Peter Fleming, Ian Fleming's brother 007)wrote about that trip as well, Like to read her version some time)
The Snow Leopard,
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
and also some books by Dervala Murphy, including Full Tilt
WARNING TO THE READER
The recorded history of Chinese civilization covers a period of four thousand years. The population of China is estimated at 450 millions. China is larger than Europe
The author of this book is twenty-six years old. He has spent, altogether, about seven months in China. He does not speak Chinese
Re. the presumed Tourist/Traveller dichotomy, Lonely Planet had a stylebook that insisted their readers were always referred to as 'travellers'.
But as their SE Asia editor Joe Cummings pointed out in an interview 'It's like they are all on some enormous package tour and I am the guide'.