Elise reed mitchell (1 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], viii, [4], 9-335, [1]; map endpapers, map frontispiece, 20 illustratios from photographs on 15 plates; fine, bright, clean, and sound copy in original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Two women on the move in Asia. Helen Wilson and her life-long partner Elsie Mitchell recount their 7,600-mile journey from Siberia to Turkestan. They traveled by foot, without an escort, and as Time Magazine reported, "No man molested them-neither bandit, desperado, nor escaped Siberian convict. They lived on the land, eating black bread and water, berries, mushrooms, honey, milk." Yakushi W178.…