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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