num_pages: 372
description: Ella Maillart travels to Russian Turkestan which the Soviet revolutionaries are attempting to westernize. On horseback, she crosses Kirghizstan as far as the T'ien Shan range (the Celestial Mountains ). With makeshift skis, she climbs a mountain of 5000 metres on the Chinese border. She explores Tashkent, Samarkand and Bokhara and travels down the Amu Daria. On a camel and in glacial winds she crosses, solo, the Desert of Red Sands to the east of the Aral Sea, avoiding dangerous checkpoints.
title: Turkestan Solo: A Journey Through Central Asia
titlecomplete: Turkestan Solo: A Journey Through Central Asia (Equestrian Travel Classics)
characters: Ella Maillart
genres: Cultural, Geography, Asia, Adventure, Memoir, Nonfiction, China, Travel, Russia, History
ratings_count: 134
places: Turkestan, Central Asia
publisher: Long Riders' Guild Press