Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/30

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Freya Stark's Leica WAS National Portrait
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Mon Aug 30 03:33:11 2004
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Phong,

Maillart was a truly remarkable woman and one of the earliest explorer's to 
use 
a iii (?) too probably. There is a picture of her using it in Peter 
Fleming's 
One's Company.

Peter

Phong wrote:

> Emanuel and other LUGers,
> 
> Speaking of woman traveller, have you had a 
> chance to check out Ella Maillart ? What do you
> think ?  A Leica user to boot.  Swiss, not English.
> 
> http://www.ellamaillart.ch
> http://www.ellamaillart.ch/french/galeriephotos/galeriephotos.html
> 
> - Phong
> 
> 
> Emanuel Lowi <lowiemanuel@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Those crazy English women (and men) who rode around
>> the desert with their cameras 70-80 years ago were a
>> bunch of extraordinary characters the likes of which I
>> suspect we will never see again. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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