Ella Maillart
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Image:Ella Maillart.jpgElla Maillart (February 20, 1903 - March 27, 1997) was a French speaking Swiss adventurer and travel writer, as well as a sportswoman. She had been captain of the Swiss Women's hockey team and was an international skier. She spent decades exploring oriental republics of the USSR during the Stalin period and published a rich series of books considered today as valuable historical testimonies. In these countries she is often cited as a reference.
In 1934 she teamed up with Peter Fleming to cross China from Peking to Srinagar later recorded in her book Forbidden Journey.
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