![]() ![]() This book, a year later, tells Ella Maillarts story of the same. An account of 3500 mile trip from Manchuria to Sinkiang (then known as Chinese Turkestan), on trains, trucks, foot, horse and camel. Last October Peter Fleming published News From Tartary. ![]() From the 1930s onwards, she explored the USSR. She was captain of the Swiss Women's hockey team, an international skier, and competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics as a sailor). Forbidden Journey (Travellers) de Maillart, Ella y una gran selección de libros, arte y artículos de colección disponible en. Maillart was a Swiss adventurer travel writer and photographer, as well as accomplished international athlete. Author's second book, her eight month trip through the Gobi and Takla Makan deserts to the gorges of the Hindu Kush in the company of Peter Fleming, his account published as News from Tartary. First published in France in the same year as Oasis Interdites. Author travelled with Peter Fleming from Peking thru Turkestan over the Himalayas/Tibet tsl from French by Thomas McGreevy. illustrated journey made in 1935, dealing mainly with Sinkiang. ![]() 1stedn, 4th ptg 8vo maroon cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt clean copy VG/ndj: XVI+312pp, 3 maps, b/w folded map, 64 bw illus. ![]()
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