biography
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Fleming, (Robert) Peter
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| male
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| lived:
| (1907–71)
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| biography:
| Travel writer and journalist, born in London, UK, the brother of Ian Fleming. He studied at Oxford, and became assistant literary editor of the Spectator. In 1932 he joined an expedition to Central Brazil following Colonel Percy Fawcett who had disappeared without trace in 1925. It provided the colourful copy which surfaced in Brazilian Adventure (1933), a landmark in travel literature and an immediate best seller. In a similar vein are One's Company (1934) and News From Tartary (1936). |
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