News from Tartary Quotes

“The province’s traditions of hospitality are all its own, and the death-rate at banquets is appalling.

You never know what may not happen at a banquet in Kashgar, and each of our official hosts had prudently brought his own bodyguard.”
― Peter Fleming, News from Tartary

“The politics of Asia are richly encrusted with polysyllables scarcely pronounceable and so similar in their outlandish unfamiliarity that the ordinary reader has the greatest difficulty in distinguishing between a place, a political leader, and a prevailing wind.”
― Peter Fleming, News from Tartary

“The Tungans’ weapons were a motley lot. One was a Winchester .303, an old sporting model and clearly the legacy of an expedition. There was an ancient Japanese service rifle, several Snyders, a German rifie (1890), and a Lee-Enfield from the Indian frontier very approximately dated by the initials VR. But the most intriguing of all was a Remington marked 1917 and stamped clumsily with the double eagle of Imperial Russia.”
― Peter Fleming , News from Tartary

“The Tungans’ weapons were a motley lot. One was a Winchester .303, an old sporting model and clearly the legacy of an expedition. There was an ancient Japanese service rifle, several Snyders, a German rifie (1890), and a Lee-Endeld from the Indian frontier very approximately dated by the initials VR. But the most intriguing of all was a Remington marked 1917 and stamped clumsily with the double eagle of Imperial Russia.”
― Peter Fleming, News from Tartary

“Continuous hunger is in many ways a very satisfactory basis for existence’.”
― Peter Fleming, News from Tartary