Published in 1934, One's Company is a classic book of its genre giving the listener a concise insight into life in Russia under Communism in the 1930s. One's Company is a classic travel book and one of the fore-runners of a whole new approach to travel writing which has inspired many a trravel writer since including William Dalrymple. This book is set at the time of much political up-heaval with the communists infiltrating Manchuria and Chiang Kai-Shek, the Chinese Generalissimo, joining forces wiuth the japanese in an attempt to halt the spread of Communism. This is the story of the author's trip onbehalf of The Times from London via the Trans-Siberian Express to China - told with great wit and humility.

Peter Fleming was born in in 1907 and educated at Eton and Oxford. In the 1930's he was a special travel correspondent for The Times, and he subsequently served with distinction in World War II. He is not as well known as his older brother Ian Fleming, author of the Bond books, nonetheless he shares something of the courage and daring of one of his brother’s characters, and makes for a superb guide in the wilderness of nationalist China.