Alma M. Karlin - The Odyssey of a Lonely Woman

Alma M. Karlin is a Slovenian phenomenon, a daring and brave woman who, between 1919 and 1927, set out on a perilous and risky eight-year journey around the world equipped with a typewriter, the famed “Erika”. Writing about her experience, which marked her for life (both physically and spiritually), becomes her way of achieving inner catharsis. It is this journey in the quest for “knowledge of herself” (as Alma calls it), a search for eternal truths about existence and life, religion and cultures, which lead her to a higher level of spirituality and philosophical awareness which finds an increasingly strong expression in her later writing.