Peter Fleming (writer) - Further Reading

Further Reading

  • Duff Hart-Davis. Peter Fleming: A Biography. London: Cape, 1974. 419 p. ISBN 0224010280.
  • Nicholas J. Clifford. "A Truthful Impression of the Country": British and American Travel Writing in China, 1880-1949. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. xxi, 231p. ISBN 0472111973

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