Ella Kini Maillart Quotes

1903 - 1997

Swiss explorer, writer, actress and athlete. She captained the Swiss women's hockey team and represented Switzerland in skiing and sailing. In 1932 she travelled alone to Russian Turkestan and in1934 to northeastern China.

Wherever I go, it is always the secret life of such simple, straightforward races that I seek, people whom a fair face is sufficient to content.Only by returning to their wayof life, canwe everhopetofindawayoutofthebogs in which we vainly stumble.

1934 Des Monts Ce lestes aux Sables Rouges (translated by John Rodder as Turkestan Solo: One Woman's Expedition from the Tien Shan to the Kizil Kum).

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So far I like India.

Ella Kini Maillart
— 1935 On crossing the Mintaka Pass at the extreme border of China. Quoted in Peter Fleming News from Tartary (1936).

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Ella Kini Maillart Quotes

1903 - 1997

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