Ella Christie
Isabella [Ella] Robertson Christie (1861-1949), traveller and gardener, was born on 21 April 1861 at Millbank, Cockpen, Edinburgh. She travelled widely in Asia and visited many countries including India, Ceylon, Malaya, China, Japan and Borneo. Her most significant trips were to Russian Turkestan in 1910 and 1912, and she was the first British woman to visit the state of Kiva. The images here are her photographs of those two journeys.
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For more information please see Ella Chrisite's book on her travels:
Christie, Ella R. 'Through Khiva to Golden Samarkand' London : Seeley, Service & co., 1925.