A Forgotten Journey Author:Peter Fleming, David Case In the forward Peter Fleming writes that "In August of 1934 I left England for the Far East, with the intention of returning from China to India by an overland route through Central Asia. I traveled as a special correspondent of The London Times. "The Central Asian enterprise, its long course and lucky outcome are described in NEWS FROM TARTA... more »RY. In the intervening five months I had covered a good deal of ground in regions which can be described as out of the way and to all of which access is now no longer possible. During these months I kept a diary; and it is of that diary that this book consists." Starting in Moscow and ending in Peking and points south, Fleming toured the Caucasus, Samarkand, Vladivostok and Mongolia, presenting here an immediate snapshot of a world gone forever.« less