Ella Kini Maillart
1903-1997
Swiss explorer who traveled throughout Asia. Maillart went to Moscow in 1932 and trekked to eastern Turkestan, where she lived with Kirghiz and Kazakh tribes. A correspond...
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Ella Maillart
Born February 20, 1903, Geneva, Switzerland Died March 27, 1997, Chandolin, Switzerland
During the 1930s Japan, the Soviet Union, and China were battling for power in central Asia. Chi...
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Ella Maillart has been well known to British readers of travel writings since the 1930s. A member of the Royal Geographical Society for many years, she was awarded the Sir Percy Sykes Medal in 1955. H...
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Ella Kini Maillart
Ella Maillart
Ella Maillart