Peter Fleming – Altogether Too Good to be True

The good folk at audible.co.uk, the audio books people, asked me to write an appreciation of the great Peter Fleming, brother of Ian obviously but a great writer and explorer of China in his own right. They’ve recently recorded a bunch of Fleming’s book, including his China related titles (News from Tartary, To Peking, The Siege of Peking etc), for downloading which is great to see the old boy back in audio form. I won’t go on any more about Fleming here as you can read the full article and appreciation of his life and work here on audible’s website.

few had as much style as Fleming while in China…