Catching all the fascination & humour of travel in out-of-the-way places, One's Company is Peter Fleming's account of his journey through Russia & Manchuria to China when he was Special Correspondent to The Times in the 1930s. Fleming spent seven months with the 'object of investigating the Communist situation in South China' at a time when, as far as he knew, 'no previous journey had been made to the anti-communist front by a foreigner', & on its publication in 1934, One's Company won widespread critical acclaim. Packed with classic incidents
- brake-failure on the Trans-Siberian Express, the Eton Boating Song singing lesson in Manchuria
- One's Company was among the forerunners of a whole new approach to travel writing.