$28 - FORBIDDEN JOURNEY, Ella Maillart, Century, London, 1983 (originally published 1937) 300 page softbound, map, sl foxing,, Introduction by Dervla Murphy - "

FORBIDDEN JOURNEY, Ella Maillart, Century, London, 1983 (originally published 1937) 300 page softbound, map, sl foxing,, Introduction by Dervla Murphy - " In 1932, having gone east from Moscow, I climbed a mountain nearly 17,000ft high on foot, and succeeedded in reaching the eastern frontier of Russian Turkestan. Ther, at last, from the heights of the celestial Mountains I could descry, on a plain far away and further still to the east, the yellow dust of the Takla makan desert. It was China, the fabulous country of which, since childhood, I had dreamed' $28 ( Arnold Heine Collection)

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FORBIDDEN JOURNEY, Ella Maillart, Century, London, 1983 (originally published 1937) 300 page softbound, map, sl foxing,, Introduction by Dervla Murphy - " In 1932, having gone east from Moscow, I climbed a mountain nearly 17,000ft high on foot, and succeeedded in reaching the eastern frontier of Russian Turkestan. Ther, at last, from the heights of the celestial Mountains I could descry, on a plain far away and further still to the east, the yellow dust of the Takla makan desert. It was China, the fabulous country of which, since childhood, I had dreamed' $28 ( Arnold Heine Collection)