![]() ![]() ![]() The journey started in February 1935 and took seven months to complete, involving travel by train, on lorries, on foot, horse and camelback. It was there that she met Peter Fleming, a well-known writer and correspondent of The Times, with whom she would team up to cross China from Peking to Srinagar (3,500 miles), much of the route being through hostile desert regions and steep Himalayan passes. In 1934, the French daily Le Petit Parisien sent her to Manchuria to report on the situation under the Japanese occupation. ![]() Turkestan Solo describes a journey in 1932 in Soviet Turkestan. Her early books were written in French but later she began to write in English. She also competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics as sailor in the Olympic monotype competitionįrom the 1930s onwards she spent years exploring oriental republics of the USSR, as well as other parts of Asia, and published a rich series of books which, just as her photographs, are today considered valuable historical testimonies. ![]() She had been captain of the Swiss Women's ice hockey team and was an international skier. Maillart, or Kini Maillart) (February 20, 1903, Geneva - March 27, 1997, Chandolin) was a French-speaking Swiss adventurer and travel writer, as well as a sportswoman. ![]()
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