Ella K. Maillart

Biography

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Detailed biography here.

Books

• Parmi la jeunesse russe (tr. “Amongst Russian Youth”)
• Turkestan Solo – One Woman’s Expedition from the Tien Shan to the Kizil Kum (her journey from Moscow to Kirghizstan and Uzbekistan in 1932)
• Forbidden Journey – From Peking to Cashmir (her trek across Asia with Peter Fleming in 1935)
• Gypsy Afloat (an account of her years at sea)
• Cruises and Caravans (autobiographical narrative)
• The Cruel Way (from Geneva to Kabul with Annemarie Schwarzenbach)
• Ti-Puss (the story of her years in India with a tiger cat as her companion)
• The Land of the Sherpas (photographs and texts on her first encounter with Nepal in 1951)