In Ti-Puss, Swiss travel writer Ella Maillart recounts three years spent in southern India in the company of her cat, Ti-Puss.

First published in English in 1951, the book sits somewhere between travel memoir, animal companionship, solitude study, and spiritual observation — a quieter, more domestic counterpoint to Maillart’s better-known accounts of movement across Central Asia and elsewhere.

This is travel writing stripped of conquest and grand masculine scenery: not “I crossed the desert, behold my boots,” but a more intimate record of place, attention, habit, and the strange bond between a traveller and the creature who becomes both anchor and witness. For readers of women’s travel writing, cat people with taste, Francophone oddities, and anyone interested in the softer, more inward side of literary wandering.

French-language paperback. Petite Bibliothèque Payot / Voyageurs edition, 2002; translated from the original English Ti-Puss, first published by William Heinemann in 1951. Very good used condition with light shelf wear to covers and minor age-toning to pages.