Turkestan Solo: A Journey Through Central Asia by Ella Maillart

Turkestan Solo: A Journey Through Central Asia

Ella Maillart

334 pages first pub 1934 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous informative reflective slow-paced
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Ella Maillart travels to Russian Turkestan which the Soviet revolutionaries are attempting to westernize. On horseback, she crosses Kirghizstan as far as the T'ien Shan range (the Celestial Mountains ). With makeshift skis, she climbs a mountain o...

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