Turkestan Solo: One Woman's Expedition from the Tien Shan to the Kizil Kum (Century Travel Classic)

Set in 1932, when by the standards of the time for someone who was both a Westerner and a woman, extensive travel within central Asia could only be a pipedream, the extensive travels Ella Maillart describes so vividly in TURKESTAN SOLO are the product of a truly determined traveller's spirit. - excerpt from inside front page