by Olivier Weber · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782228897099
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«Je suis de nulle part: sur les traces d'Ella Maillart» is the biography of Ella Maillart by Olivier Weber, in paperback.
Olivier Weber reconstructs in this book the life of Ella Maillart, a Swiss traveller born in 1903, and travels through the same places she visited. The author combines the biographical narrative with his own journey in Maillart's footsteps, offering a portrait of a woman who devoted her life to exploration and travel.
The work was published in Paris in the collection Voyageurs de la Petite Bibliothèque Payot. The text is in French.
For readers interested in biographies of women travellers and travel literature.
Olivier Weber is a French writer, novelist and reporter at large, known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has been a war correspondent for twenty-five years, especially in Central Asia, Africa, Middle-East and Iraq. He is an assistant professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, president of the Prize Joseph Kessel and today ambassador of France at large. Weber has won several national and international awards of literature and journalism, in particular for his stories on Afghanistan and for his books on wars. His novels, travels writing books and essays have been translated in a dozen of languages.
