![]() ![]() They are two of the finest travelogues I have come across. ![]() It doesn't matter which book one reads first. 'Forbidden Journey' is an account of a journey Maillart took with an English journalist from Beijing to Xinjiang (also known as Sinjiang or Chinese Turkestan) and then on to India. To truly appreciate what they had to go through on this arduous trip, I think one should really read both of them, preferably one after the other. Ella Maillart was a Swiss adventurer, journalist and sportswoman, who travelled through some of the remoter areas of Asia through the 1930s. Maillart was also a keen and excellent photographer.įleming wrote his own account of the trip in his book 'News from Tartary'. They had been journalists when they first met - she was working for the French newspaper 'Le Petit Parisien' and he for the London 'Times'. Maillart and Fleming were interested in finding out what was going on in Sinkiang, the scene of a civil war. The trek took seven months and they covered some 3500 miles, travelling by rail when possible, on trucks, on horse and camelback, and when no other form of transport was available their feet took them to their next destination. This is an account of her trip with Peter Fleming, the British ournalist and writer, from Paking to Kashmir in 1935. Ella Maillart (1903-1997) was a Swiss travel writer who spent many years in Asia. ![]()
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