" It is often more profitable to read travelers who write than writers who travel" , advises Nicolas Bouvier, the author of L'Usage du monde, who knows a little about the subject. Her admiration is boundless for Ella Maillart - a great traveler who writes. Regarding Forbidden Oases , undoubtedly his most emblematic story and for which he signed the preface, Bouvier says that Ella Maillart has devoted the best of her life to surveying the central provinces of China. She therefore drew from them these forbidden Oases : it is a masterpiece for him, he does not hold back his words:“The striking freshness of the observation, an extremely precise language, finally a philosophy of travel which allows the author to live his adventure without too much wanting to govern it, replace with advantage“ the pretension to make literary work ”.”
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This is because Ella Maillart has elevated simplicity to the rank of art - and her humility is not for nothing. She achieves something magical and magnetic:
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