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Encyclopedia > Ella Maillart

Ella Maillart 1903-1997 was a French speaking Swiss sportswoman and traveller. She had been captain of the Swiss Women's hockey team and was an international skier.


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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Why Ella? :: Ella Studio (263 words)
Ella was named in honour of a great writer, Ella Maillart and one of the greatest female jazz singers the world has ever known: Ella Fitzgerald.
Ella Maillart was one of the most amazing female travellers in the world.
In the course of her career she won every form of musical recognition of her day and recorded more than 120 albums, excluding compilations; and despite her musical stature we could have heard her soulful voice modestly pouring forth on stage at age 70 just as we could have when she was 16.
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Ella considers it a means, not an end: “After all, the earth is there, the earth belongs to me, I want to see it, I want to travel over deserts and mountains.
Maillart possesses the enchanted eye of the born traveller and the machine is the mechanical extension of an aesthetic and moral sensitivity that is part of her being.
Ella is physical, Annemarie is diaphanous, Ella is healthy, Annemarie is sick, Ella is calm, Annemarie is troubled, Ella is primordial, Annemarie is artificial.
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