Ella Maillart
Birth date: February 20, 1903
Died: March 27, 1997
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This is not Ella Maillart's first book but details the early part of her life. Before she set out to explore the globe on land, Maillart worked as a language teacher in an English girls' school but longed to follow her passion of sailing. When she unexpectedly was offered a position as a cook and ge...
This is another book by Ella Maillart about her travels to the far flung places of the earth whose names sound like she made them up for a children's bedtime story. I read Auf Kuehner Reise (tr. "Daring Travels" - it may also have been published as "Ausser Kurs", i.e. "Off Course"), which was orig...
Over the past year, Ella Maillart has become not just one of my favourite travel writers but also a bit of a heroine of mine. The Land of the Sherpas is an account of her trip to Nepal in 1951, just shortly after the country opened its borders to foreign visitors for the very first time. Mailla...
bookshelves: under-50-ratings, published-1947, travel, summer-2015, paper-read, women Recommended to Bettie☯ by: BrokenTune Read from January 26 to July 13, 2015 Description: Once again Ella Maillart is on her way to Asia, but she is not alone. Christina, (real name Annemarie Schwarzenbach) a ...
"Night was falling when the vast swarm of lights that was Paris appeared in the north.... Suddenly I understood something. I felt now, with all the strength of my senses and intelligence, that Paris, France, Europe, the White Race, were nothing.... The something that counted in and against all parti...
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