Author: MAILLART, ELLA K.:
Title: Forbidden Journey. From Peking to Kashmir. London 1937.
Description: . Pp. xvi, 312. With frontispiece, three maps and 35 pages with multiple illustrations made from photographs. Publisher's red cloth, rubbed, endpapers toned. Old ownership signature. First English edition, later printing, published in the same year as the original French edition "Oasis interdites". In 1934 Ella Maillart went to Manuchuria commissioned as a special correspondent for the French newspaper "Petit Parisien". From there, together with the British explorer Peter Fleming, she made a tough journey home through the Gobi and Takla Makan deserts to the gorges of the Hindu Kush. Robinson p. 52. Yakushi (1984) M42b.

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