A classic account of a trip through China during the golden age of travelIn 1935 Ella Maillart contemplated one of the most arduous journeys in the world: the "impossible journey" from Peking, then a
In 1939 Swiss travel writer and journalist Ella K. Maillart set off on an epic journey from Geneva to Kabul with fellow writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach in a brand new Ford. As the first European women
