Ella Maillart

Forbidden Journey

Übersetzer: McGreevy, Thomas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In 1935 Ella Maillart contemplated one of the most arduous journeys in the world: the ""impossible journey"" from Peking, then a part of Japanese-occupied China, through the distant province of Sinkiang (present day Turkistan), to Kashmir. This title provides an account of her journey.

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Produktdetails

• Marlboro Travel
• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 135mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9780810119857
• ISBN-10: 0810119854
• Artikelnr.: 21581668

Autorenporträt

Ella Maillart was born in Switzerland in 1904. An Olympic athlete, actress, movie stuntwoman, and captain of the Swiss Ladies Hockey Team, Maillart also found time to travel widely in Asia. In 1939 she and her companion Annemarie Schwarzenbach drove from Switzerland to Afghanistan, a trip described in Maillart's book The Cruel Way (Beacon, 1987). Her other books include Turkestan Solo (Long Riders Guild, 2001). She died in 1997. Thomas McGreevy (1893-1967) was a poet, a critic, and a translator.