![]() ![]() ![]() What Maillart found in Central Asia, she writes, was above all a serenity that distinguishes people who live in a world where speed does not play a significant role and where people are not lonely individuals who have to fight the rest of the world at all times. And only those who have found a way to express it can understand it. Only those who can grasp and understand vastness can acquire it. ![]() The vastness of the horizon must be within us, must only come from us. One must be open to embrace the new within oneself. She agrees with the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who warned against searching for a new world in the outside world, as new worlds can only arise from one’s own self. That by travelling we can learn more about what connects us with other people in the world and ideally become more compassionate about the choices people make in life and the fates of others. Above all, she believes that travelling should first and foremost awaken a feeling of solidarity. At the beginning of her book ‚Turkestan Solo‘ the famous sailor, skier and traveller Ella Maillart (1903-1997) asks herself and her readers why she travels. ![]()
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