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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 Tukestan), to Kashmir. Traveling along with newswriter Peter Fleming and also her companion Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Maillart undertook a journey considered almost beyond imagination for any European and doubly so for a woman. Zusammenfassung 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.
