Eastern Approaches

Eastern Approaches

Front Book Cover
Author	Fitzroy Maclean
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.