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Ella Maillart, one of the great travelers of the 20th century

Ella Maillart (or Ella K. Maillart; 20 February 1903, Geneva – 27 March 1997, Chandolin) was a Swiss adventurer, travel writer and photographer, as well as a sportswoman.[1]

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Ella Maillart

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Ella Maillart (or Ella K. Maillart; 20 February 1903, Geneva – 27 March 1997, Chandolin) was a Swiss adventurer, travel writer and photographer, as well...

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Maillart

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Maillart is a surname, and may refer to Aimé Maillart (1817–1871), French composer Ella Maillart (1903–1997), Swiss travel writer Robert Maillart (1872–1940)...

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Midas

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1996 (2nd edn.), John Murray, ISBN 0719541476 The legend is related in Ella Maillart, Dervla Murphy, Turkestan solo: a journey through Central Asia (1938)...

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Turkestan

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Eleanor Lattimore. Turkestan Solo: A Journey Through Central Asia, by Ella Maillart. Baymirza Hayit. "Documents: Soviet Russia's Anti-Islam-Policy in Turkestan...

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Switzerland during the World Wars

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portrayed as a burden. This attitude can clearly be seen in an article by Ella Maillart for the “Weekly” magazine in London, 1938. Between 10,000 and 24,000...

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Uyghurs

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foreigners travelers in Xinjiang such as George W. Hunter, Peter Fleming, Ella Maillart and Sven Hedin, referred to the Turkic Muslims of the region as "Turki"...

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Kafiristan

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Dubini recounting an overland journey by Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Ella Maillart from Geneva to Kabul. Umberto Eco mentions Kafiristan (as "Kefiristan")...

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News from Tartary

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China to Kashmir, India in 1935. He was accompanied on this journey by Ella Maillart (Kini). The journey started on 16 February 1935 and took seven months...

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Annemarie Schwarzenbach

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embarked on an overland trip to Afghanistan with the ethnologist Ella Maillart. Maillart had "lorry-hopped" from Istanbul to India two years previously...

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Camel train

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Boston : Little, Brown, and Company Maillart, Ella (1936) Oasis interdites: de Pékin au Cachemire. Paris: Grasset Maillart, Ella (1937) Forbidden Journey: from...

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Geneva

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Maier (born 1963), psychoanalyst, economist, and best-selling writer Ella Maillart (1903–1997), adventurer, travel writer and photographer, as well as...

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List of women explorers and travelers

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to see Mount Everest; wrote The Indian Alps and How We Crossed Them Ella Maillart Swiss 1903 1997 Explorer and travel writer in Asia from the late 1920s...

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List of travel books

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Traveller series – 11 books about his travels in Britain, the US and Japan Ella Maillart (1903 – 1997) – Swiss travel writer. Turkestan Solo - One Woman's Expedition...

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Ma Hushan

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part of his governing doctrine. Ma Hushan himself was described by Ella Maillart as a "well-set-up long-legged man". Ma's regime forced the switch from...

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Deaths in March 1997

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attack. Charles Lillard, 53, American-Canadian poet and historian. Ella Maillart, 94, Swiss adventurer, travel writer and photographer. Benno Premsela...

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March 27

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businessman and politician, 69th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1906) 1997 – Ella Maillart, Swiss skier, sailor, field hockey player, and photographer (b. 1903)...

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Colette Peignot

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surrealists, eight years her senior. Their relationship was a tumultuous one: Ella Maillart, a friend of Colette Peignot, reports that she said on the first evening:...

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Nina Petri

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Mrs. Hansen 2000 No Place to Go Grete 2001 The Journey to Kafiristan Ella Maillart 2002 Big Girls Don't Cry Ann 2003 Angst Psychiatrist 2005 The Day Bobby...

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The Journey to Kafiristan

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journey through Kafiristan, a region in Afghanistan, with ethnologist Ella Maillart, who is investigating nomadic people there, as they explore themselves...

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Kumbum Monastery

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so many wayfarers from the West apart from David-Néel (Paul Pelliot, Ella Maillart, Peter Fleming, Evariste Huc, André Migot) have spent time there. "sku...

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List of Swiss people

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Christian Kracht (born 1966), author Hugo Loetscher (1929–2009), author Ella Maillart (1903–1997) Niklaus Meienberg (1940–1993) Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825–1898)...

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New 36th Division

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University Press. p. 267. ISBN 0-8101-6071-4. Retrieved 28 June 2010. Ella Maillart (2003). Forbidden journey: from Peking to Kashmir (illustrated ed.)...

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Olivier Weber

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has also written the biographies of Joseph Conrad, Jack London and Ella Maillart. He is a member of the Albert Londres Award's jury. Author and writer...

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