MAILLART, Ella K.
Turkestan Solo: One Woman's Expedition from the Tien Shan to the Kizil Kum.
"Real strength, real courage, and the only genius in this huge ant-heap of ours lies in going where on wishes, when one wishes and as rapidly as one wishes": First edition of Ella K. Maillart's Turkestan Solo
Covent Garden, London: Putnam, 1934.
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First edition of Swiss adventurer Ella Maillart's account of her solo expedition through Soviet Turkestan. Octavo, bound in half morocco with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with photographs and maps. Translated from the French by John Rodker. In good condition. Bookplate.
In Turkestan Solo, Swiss adventurer and travel writer Ella Maillart recounts her solo expedition from Tien Shan to the Kizil Kum. The photographs from this journey are now displayed in the Ella Maillart wing of the Karakol Historical Museum.
Turkestan Solo: One Woman's Expedition from the Tien Shan to the Kizil Kum.
$150.00
Out of Stock