Berlin,1931

Departure. Love the poetry lines I found on Heinrich Heine. I'm pleased with this page, the colours give a good atmosphere, Marga is her adorable self in the stained overall and the plane has the dynamics and the lonleyness that are typical for Marga.

Kazan

Kazan is such a peculiar city, that I had to make a drawing of it.

The story get's better

The book -Kiek in die Welt - is a great help. So much more details about the trip Marga von Etzdorf took are revealed.
An older page get's adjusted and a brand new one emerges from the book.

I have got it!

The book, the autobiografie of Marga von Etzdorf, in German [but that's ok].
There is so much wonderfull stuff in there to make beautifull pages. What about an forced landing in the middle of nowhere. A village without fuell, so someone hast go out on a moterbike to find some …

Beeing a female pilots is hazardous

Beeing a female pilot in the first half of the 20th century was hazardous.
While waiting for the autobiography of Marga von Etzdorf I have been reading about other female pilotos. Amy Johnson, drownd in the Thames. And Ameilia Earhart vanished above the Pasific Ocean. Some believed she and Fed Noonan in her Lokheed L10 Elektra landed on the Nukumaroro atoll and, after perishing from thirst, were eaten by coconut crabs.
Here is the aproach of the atoll-beach …

We move on … Marga and I

She goes to Mukden and have to stay there, while the Sino-Japanese is developing.
I have picked a different type face for her tekst. As if we hav a page from het dairy.

Hazards

When crossing the Taiga, Marga was afraid. Afraid that if she was forced to make an emergencie landing the wolfs would find here before rescuer would. When she finaly reached the Baikal lake, it was a tremendous relief.