biography
| name: |
Maillart, Ella Kini
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pronunciation:
[mayah(r)]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1903–97)
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| biography:
| Travel writer, born in Geneva, SW Switzerland. An accomplished sailor, hockey-player, and skier, she taught in Wales, worked on an archaeological dig in Crete, and studied film production in Moscow. In 1932 she crossed Russian Turkestan and wrote of her travels in both French and English. In 1934 she went to Mongolia to report on the Japanese invasion for Petite Parisien, and returned via Beijing across Tibet and into Kashmir with Peter Fleming, described in Forbidden Journey (1937). She worked and journeyed in Iran and Afghanistan, and lived in an ashram in S India under the tutelage of Sri Ramama. She was one of the first travellers into Nepal when it opened in 1949, and wrote The Land of the Sherpas (1955). |
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