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| Author | Fitzroy Maclean |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | World War II, Travel literature |
| Genre | Autobiography |
Publication date | 1949 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Paperback |
| Pages | 550 |
| OCLC | 6486798 |
Eastern Approaches (1949) is a memoir of the early career of Fitzroy Maclean. It is divided into three parts: his life as a junior diplomat in Moscow and his travels in the Soviet Union, especially the forbidden zones of Central Asia; his exploits in the British Army and SAS in the North Africa theatre of war; and his time with Josip Broz Tito and the Partisans in Yugoslavia.
Maclean was considered to be one of the inspirations for James Bond,[1] and this book contains many of the elements: remote travel, the sybaritic delights of diplomatic life, violence and adventure. The American edition was titled Escape To Adventure, and was published a year later. All place names in this article use the spelling in the book.