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100 1 $aHedin, Sven Anders,$d1865-1952.
240 10 $aMitt liv som upptäcktsresande.$lEnglish
245 10 $aMy life as an explorer /$cSven Hedin ; illustrated by the author ; translated by Alfhild Huebsch.
260 $aNew York :$bBoni & Liveright,$c1925.
300 $a544 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aIncludes index.
500 $aIllustrated lining-papers.
505 0 $aHow it all began -- Across the Elburz Range to Teheran -- On horseback through Persia -- Through Mesopotamia to Bagdad -- An adventurous ride through western Persia -- Constantinople -- An ambassador to the Shah of Persia -- A burial-ground -- To the top of Demavend -- Through Khorasan, the land of the sun -- Meshhed, the city of martyrs -- Bokhara and Samarkand -- Into the heart of Asia -- WIth the Emir of Bokhara -- Two thousand miles in a carriage : a winter ride on the "roof of the world" -- With the Kirghiz -- My struggle with the "father of the ice-mountains" -- I approach the desert -- The sand-sea -- The caravan meets with disaster -- The last days -- Robinson Crusoe -- Second expedition to the Pamirs -- I discover 2000-year-old cities in the desert -- The wild camels' paradise -- Retreating twelve hundred miles -- A detective-story from the heart of Asia -- My first entry into Tibet -- Wild asses, wild yaks, and Mongolians -- In the land of the Tangut robbers -- On to Peking -- Back to the deserts! -- Our life on the largest river in the very heart of Asia -- Struggling with the ice -- A hazardous journey across the Great Desert -- We discover an ancient city in the Lop Desert -- Our final weeks on the branching Tarim -- Adventures in Eastern Tibet -- A death-strewn retreat -- Through the Gobi Desert without water -- Lou-lan, the sleeping town -- Back to high Tibet -- Toward Lhasa disguised as a pilgrim -- A prisoner of the Tibetans -- Stopped by an armed force -- Through Tibet to India, and back to Tibet -- Fighting four governments -- Stormy journeys by water -- Marching with death through northern Tibet -- Through the large white spot : "unexplored" -- The pilgrim's journey on the Holy River -- With the Tashi Lama at the New-Year festival -- Our experiences in Tash-Lunpo and Shigatse -- Strange monasteries, walled-in monks -- New trans-Himalaya passes : Mohammed Isa's last journey -- The discovery of the source of the Brahma-putra -- Manasarovar, the holy lake -- Rakas-Tal, the Devil's lake -- From the holy mountain to the source of the Indus -- Desperate winter days in northern Tibet -- I become a shepherd -- A Tibetan captive again -- New travels through the unknown land -- To India.
600 10 $aHedin, Sven Anders,$d1865-1952$xTravel$zAsia.
651 0 $aAsia$xDescription and travel.
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700 1 $aHuebsch, Alfhild,$d1887-
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948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN P4A - 279 OTHER HOLDINGS