News from Tartary

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News from Tartary is a 1936 travel book by British writer Peter Fleming recounting his overland journey through Central Asia from Peking to Kashmir.

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Label Occurrences
News from Tartary canonical 3

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf book
non-fiction book
travel book
author Peter Fleming
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
depicts conditions in Chinese Turkestan
travel on the Silk Road routes
describesJourneyType overland journey
followsRouteBetween Kashmir
Beijing
surface form: Peking
genre adventure literature
travel literature
hasAuthorCitizenship British
hasAuthorOccupation journalist
travel writer
hasGeographicFocus Himalayan region
Karakoram
surface form: Karakoram region

Xinjiang
hasLiteraryStyle observational reporting
witty prose
hasMainCharacter Peter Fleming
hasOriginalPublicationDateCentury 20th century
hasPerspective British traveler’s viewpoint
hasSequelOrRelatedWork Brazilian Adventure
One's Company
hasTitleWord News
Turkestan
surface form: Tartary
historicalContext interwar period
languageOfWorkOrName English
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature
mediaType print
narrativeForm first-person narrative
notableFor blend of reportage and personal narrative
detailed account of remote regions of Central Asia
originalLanguage English
publicationYear 1936
publisherCountry United Kingdom
setting Central Asia
Kashmir
Beijing
surface form: Peking
subjectMatter frontier regions of the British Empire
political conditions in Central Asia
travel in Central Asia
timePeriodOfJourney 1930s

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: News from Tartary
Description of subject: News from Tartary is a 1936 travel book by British writer Peter Fleming recounting his overland journey through Central Asia from Peking to Kashmir.

Referenced by (3)

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Peter Fleming notableWork News from Tartary
One's Company followedBy News from Tartary
Travels in Tartary relatedWorkByAuthor News from Tartary