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    Ella Maillart (or Ella K. Maillart; 20 February 1903, Geneva – 27 March 1997, Chandolin) was a Swiss adventurer, travel writer and photographer, as well...
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  • Maillart is a surname, and may refer to Aimé Maillart (1817–1871), French composer Ella Maillart (1903–1997), Swiss travel writer Robert Maillart (1872–1940)...
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  • written up in One's Company (1934). He then went overland in company of Ella Maillart from China via Tunganistan to India on a journey written up in News...
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  • 1979), Hong Kong singer Ella Logan (1913–1969), Scottish actress and singer Ella Mai (born 1994), British singer Ella Maillart (1903–1997), Swiss adventurer...
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    watches during the war. The Sowar model is still manufactured today. Ella Maillart mentions the presence of West End Watch Company watches in Western China...
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    Michelle Zuberain Salaud, on t'aime Printemps Kaminsky 2015 Ella Maillart - Double Journey Ella Maillart voice over Sayonara 2016 The Collection Marianne Eternity...
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    Eleanor Lattimore. Turkestan Solo: A Journey Through Central Asia, by Ella Maillart. Baymirza Hayit. "Documents: Soviet Russia's Anti-Islam-Policy in Turkestan...
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  • China to Kashmir, India in 1935. He was accompanied on this journey by Ella Maillart (Kini). The journey started on 16 February 1935 and took seven months...
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    portrayed as a burden. This attitude can clearly be seen in an article by Ella Maillart for the “Weekly” magazine in London, 1938. Between 10,000 and 24,000...
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    1996 (2nd edn.), John Murray, ISBN 0719541476 The legend is related in Ella Maillart, Dervla Murphy, Turkestan solo: a journey through Central Asia (1938)...
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    embarked on an overland trip to Afghanistan with the ethnologist Ella Maillart. Maillart had "lorry-hopped" from Istanbul to India two years previously...
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    Dubini recounting an overland journey by Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Ella Maillart from Geneva to Kabul. Umberto Eco mentions Kafiristan (as "Kefiristan")...
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    Maier (born 1963), psychoanalyst, economist, and best-selling writer Ella Maillart (1903–1997), adventurer, travel writer and photographer, as well as...
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    Boston : Little, Brown, and Company Maillart, Ella (1936) Oasis interdites: de Pékin au Cachemire. Paris: Grasset Maillart, Ella (1937) Forbidden Journey: from...
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    foreigners travelers in Xinjiang such as George W. Hunter, Peter Fleming, Ella Maillart and Sven Hedin, referred to the Turkic Muslims of the region as "Turki"...
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    part of his governing doctrine. Ma Hushan himself was described by Ella Maillart as a "well-set-up long-legged man". Ma's regime forced the switch from...
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    Journey into China. E.P. Dutton & co., inc. p. 292. Retrieved 2010-11-28. Ella Maillart (2003). Forbidden journey: from Peking to Kashmir (illustrated ed.)...
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  • Traveller series – 11 books about his travels in Britain, the US and Japan Ella Maillart (1903 – 1997) – Swiss travel writer. Turkestan Solo - One Woman's Expedition...
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    engaging in crime in the republics they arrived in. Swiss reporter Ella Maillart, who traveled through Soviet Central Asia and China in the early 1930s...
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    engaging in crime in the republics they arrived in. Swiss reporter Ella Maillart, who traveled through Soviet Central Asia and China in the early 1930s...
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    Latvian American 1870 1947 First woman to bicycle around the world Ella Maillart Swiss 1903 1997 Explorer and travel writer in Asia from the late 1920s...
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  • journey through Kafiristan, a region in Afghanistan, with ethnologist Ella Maillart, who is investigating nomadic people there, as they explore themselves...
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  • attack. Charles Lillard, 53, American-Canadian poet and historian. Ella Maillart, 94, Swiss adventurer, travel writer and photographer. Benno Premsela...
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    Mrs. Hansen 2000 No Place to Go Grete 2001 The Journey to Kafiristan Ella Maillart 2002 Big Girls Don't Cry Ann 2003 Angst Psychiatrist 2005 The Day Bobby...
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    surrealists, eight years her senior. Their relationship was a tumultuous one: Ella Maillart, a friend of Colette Peignot, reports that she said on the first evening:...
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  • businessman and politician, 69th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1906) 1997 – Ella Maillart, Swiss skier, sailor, field hockey player, and photographer (b. 1903)...
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  • University Press. p. 267. ISBN 0-8101-6071-4. Retrieved 28 June 2010. Ella Maillart (2003). Forbidden journey: from Peking to Kashmir (illustrated ed.)...
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    between June 1953 and December 1954 after having received the blessing of Ella Maillart, the Swiss adventurer and travel writer. The route, made in a Fiat 500...
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    adventurer, travel writer and photographer, as well as a sportswoman, Ella Maillart  Belgium (BEL), three times Olympic medalist, Léon Huybrechts  France (FRA)...
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    the permanent home of Swiss travel writer Ella Maillart until her death, and it now houses the Ella Maillart Museum in her memory. The blazon of the village...
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