Forbidden Journey: From Peking to Kashmir
by Maillart, Ella K
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann LTD, 1937. xvi, 312. Quarto. Red cloth boards. Gilt lettering on the spine. Spine somewhat sunned. Boards very lightly rubbed. Trimmed edges, a bit dust soiled. Former owner's bookplate on the front paste down. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Includes a fold out map. Rear joint cracked. A very readable copy. "I put as many miles as possible between myself and the world of luxury hotels and stream-lined expresses," wrote Ella Maillart. Through a career that lasted eight decades, Maillart, a writer, photographer, and journalist, introduced her readers to far-off places. She brought main character energy to women's lives—her own and the women she met on her journeys. In this volume, Maillart's travels took her westward across China, through swamps, deserts and mountains, and her only regret was that the journey must someday end. "I was thinking; returning home I was different than the person who had left. I was no longer Swiss, or European. I belonged now to the whole world....." 1937
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 143770
- Title
- Forbidden Journey: From Peking to Kashmir
- Author
- Maillart, Ella K
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann LTD
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Sian |India|Hymalayas|History|Women travellers|Tibet
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- Bookplate
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- Quarto
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- Cloth
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- Soiled
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- Spine
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- Sunned
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
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