His different experiences Tachienlu with his consequent return to the city and final departure again will probably be the most interesting chapters in. this book of travel. Months on a windjammer, travels in 'Tasmania, yachting along the Barrier Reef, jungle life in New Guinea, jour-unalism in Sourabaya; five changes in the Yangtze Gorges, bus riding in Szechuen, travelling with a Chinese coolie' along a mountain highway and experiences with a Yunnan opium caravan are only a few of the chapter headings; and among them will no doubt be a special chapter dealing with life among the snow mountains along the Tibetan frontier. Unwittingly the officials on the border did him a very good turn and if this travel book becomes a "best seller" during 1938, Tachienlu should figure very prominently in it,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.