Author: MAILLART, ELLA K:
Title: Turkestan Solo. One Woman's Expedition from the Tien Shan to the Kizil Kum. New York, Putman's son, 1934.
Description: . Pp. x, 307. With 32 plates made from photographs, maps on endpapers (one with ownership's signature in ink). Partly some light staining. Publisher's cloth with some light wear. Signed by author. First English edition of Maillart's first book. Translated by John Rodker from the original French edition titled "Des Montes célestes..." 1934. A narrative of a remarkable trek in 1932 from Moscow to the easternmost borders of Russian Turkestan. She travelled from the Tian Shan north of the Tarim Basin via Tashkent, Samarkand, Khiva to the Kyzylkum desert. Robinson p. 52.

Keywords: Europe, russia, russian, ryssland, travel, exploration, turkestan, voyage, lady traveller, lady, kazakhstanm uzbekistan, turkmenistan


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