Maillart sailed the Mediterranean in a yawl, traveled with famed travel English travel writer Peter Fleming from Peking to Kashmir, explored Tibet with a half-wild tiger-cat in search of spiritual enlightenment, and finally drove 4,000 miles from war-torn Europe to the fabled Khyber Pass in a battered Ford car. Her later adventures took her across many continents and various oceans. Yet these outdoor activities only developed Maillart's insatiable curiosity to travel east, leaving behind the confines of her early life in Geneva in search of the perfect life that she was instinctively seeking. An amazing sports woman, she first represented her country as the only woman competitor at the 1924 Paris Olympics in the single-handed boat-sailing contest, then later raced for Switzerland as a member of the international ski team.

That Ella Maillart did it, largely alone and more than 70 years ago, makes her journey all the more remarkable.Ella Maillart was the adventurous Swiss woman who made her name as an intrepid explorer and one of the most remarkable woman travelers of the early twentieth century. Even today, a trip like this would be considered daring. Her companions are drawn from both past and present - Mongolian princesses rub shoulders with Trotskyist exiles, whilst pilgrims and dervishes ride alongside emperors and kings. She climbed the 5,000 metre-high Sari Tor on makeshift skis, explored the legendary cities of Tashkent, Samarkand, Khiva and Bukhara, travelled down the Amu Daria river and crossed, solo, the freezing and hostile wastes of the Kizil Kum, the Desert of Red Sands. Setting out from Moscow, she crossed Kyrgyzstan as far as the Tien Shan range (the Celestial Mountains). She travelled like a nomad - slowly, by camel and on foot. Her dream was to see the mountains that lay on the fringes of China and the Takla Makan desert. In 1932, long before travelling in Central Asia became fashionable, Ella Maillart travelled to Russian Turkestan, bordered by China, Tibet, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Barne- og ungdomsbøker for motvillige lesere.Se alle bøker innen Dokumentar og fakta ».Se alle bøker innen Økonomi, administrasjon og ledelse ».Se alle bøker innen Pedagogikk og samfunnsvitenskap ».Naturvitenskap, filosofi, teori og metode.Se alle bøker innen Medisin, helse og psykologi ».

Ella maillart turkestan solo