![]() ![]() The Caravanserai on Market Day The Female Camel eats snow to quench her thirst Fugitives on the long desert route Red Sands Desert, the author on her camel in the Kizil Kum. Balia Khan Mosque Kayuk An Arba delivering Cotton The Persian Bread Bakerl Turtu Kol. Setting out from Moscow, she crossed Kyrgyzstan as far as the Tien Shan range (the Celestial Mountains). Street of the Barbers Plov being eaten in the Bazaar Bokhara. In 1932, long before traveling in Central Asia became fashionable, Ella Maillart travelled to Russian Turkestan, bordered by China, Tibet, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. The illustrations include: Young Kazak Woman, Tashkent Train in Background Jocubai with an Argali Skull Natives Beating Felt Volodya Studying the Kok Chal Range The Uzbek Merchant with his Caravan The Elder of the Aul, Mounted on a Bull, about to show us our way. ![]() ![]() The illustrations are all b&w photographic illustrations. Translated from the French by John Rodker. Red-brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. First edition in English (previously published in French in the same year as "Des Mont Celestes aux Sables Rouges"). ![]() A 2" wide strip clipped from upper margin of blank front fly leaf. Turkestan solo one womans expedition from the Tien Shan to the Kizil Kum by Ella Maillart. Some light fading and rubbing to cloth on spine and boards.Corners of boards knocked. You can see her photos taken during that period, you can ask for a book Turkestan Solo depicting her travel from Moscow to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. ![]()
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