If this title is a multivolume set, this is a single volume, Black & white printing on high quality natural shade paper with sewing binding for longer life, professionally processed without changing its contents. Original edition was published in and this unique edition is Reprinted in 2017 with the help of original edition. We have multiple options in color of leather Red, Green, Blue, Black and with Black labels. An Original Leather is being used for binding this book with Golden Leaf Printing and designing on Spine, front and Back of the book with edge gilding. 364 A Unique Leather Bound book for elite readers/collectors of old rare books. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Paperback. It remains a vivid account of its time and a classic of travel literature. But it is also a portrait of a fascinating woman, one of many women from the pre-WWII era who ignored convention and traveled in hidden lands. At all times she is a witty, always-enchanted guide-except when it comes to bureaucrats.įorbidden Journey ranks among other travel narratives like Fleming's News from Tartary, (based on the same journey) and Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana. It's a hard road, not that Maillart cares. Maillart describes it all with the sharp eye and unvarnished prose of a veteran reporter-the missionaries and rogues, parents binding daughters' feet with rags, the impatient Fleming lighting fires under stubborn camels. Setting out with pockets full of Mexican money (the currency used in China at the time), Maillart encountered a way of life now lost, but one that then had gone unchanged for centuries. The trip promised hardships such as typhus and bandits, as well as the countless hazards surrounding the civil war between Chinese communists and Chiang Kai-shek's nationalists. Enlisting with newswriter Peter Fleming (with the caveat that his company remain tolerable), Maillart undertook a journey considered almost beyond imagination for any European and doubly so for a woman. In 1935 Ella Maillart contemplated one of the most arduous journeys in the world: the "impossible journey" from Peking, then a part of Japanese-occupied China, through the distant province of Sinkiang (present day Tukestan), to Kashmir. A classic account of a trip through China during the golden age of travel
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