FROM MELBOURNE TO MOSCOW

G. C. DIXON

GEOFFREY BLES: LONDON
1925

First edition.
AUTHOR'S NOTE “It is less than six months since I completed a journey from Melbourne to London via the East Indies, China, Korea, Japan, Manchuria, Siberia and Russia; but already much that I wrote about has changed. The building of the Singapore Base has been resumed ; Sun Yat-sen, that lost leader of lost causes, is dead; Chang Tso-lin, the War Lord of Manchuria, has made his bid for power, crushed his hated rival, and retired, in the face of unexpected obstacles, to Mukden ; and the Soviet Government has outwitted or out-bribed all other parties and gained control of the great Chinese Eastern Railway. In Russia, too, there have been changes. AIl the world knows now what I had difficulty in making people believe —that Trotsky has fallen ; and the unrest which, six months ago, was so marked amongst the peasants, has forced the Communists to concede certain privileges, including virtual ownership of the land they occupy.”

The author was a British/Australian Journalist who went on to become a film critic.

22 x 14 cm. 320 pp + b/w photo plates.

Very good condition. Cloth slightly faded on the spine. A little light foxing but otherwise clean and tidy.