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 on behalf of The Times newspaper from London via the Trans-Siberian Express to China - told with great wit and humility.