Ella Maillart
Ella Maillart
Ella Maillartwas a French-speaking Swiss adventurer, travel writer and photographer, as well as a sportswoman...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth20 February 1903
CountrySwitzerland
cruise far following journey left question sooner
No sooner had I left to cruise the Mediterranean than the following question preoccupied me: How far does one kill a journey by making it become real?
analyse led obeying strong today urge
When I started travelling, I was 18; I was instinctively obeying a strong urge. Today I can analyse that urge and see where it has led me.
able
Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.
towns poor bigs
I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
humanity infinity different
Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
mould sentences refuse
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
language foreign-language wanted
I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.
asia covered crossed exactly peter spoke
When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his.