From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People
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1912
English
- Sec 1 Across Europe
- Sec 2 Constantinople to Teheran (1905)
- Sec 3 Through the Caucasus, Persia, and Mesopotamia (1885-6)
- Sec 4 The Persian Desert (1906)
- Sec 5 On the Kirghiz Steppe (1893-5)
- Sec 6 From Persia to India (1906)
- Sec 7 Eastern Turkestan (1895)
- Sec 8 The Western Waterway (1899)
- Sec 9 In the Forbidden Land (1901-2)
- Sec 10 India
- Sec 11 From India to China (1908)
- Sec 12 China
- Sec 13 Japan
- Sec 14 Back to Europe
- Sec 15 Stockholm to Egypt
- Sec 16 Africa, part 1
- Sec 17 Africa, part 2
- Sec 18 Africa, Part 3
- Sec 19 North America, part 1
- Sec 20 North America, part 2
- Sec 21 South America
- Sec 22 In the South Seas
- Sec 23 The North Polar Regions
- Sec 24 The South Polar Regions
This book was first published in 1912. It is a simplified English translation of the author's Från pol till pol: genom Asien och Europa (Bonnier, Stockholm, 1911).
Part 1 tells of Hedin's own extensive travels across Europe and Asia. Hedin visited Turkey, the Caucasus, Tehran, Iraq, lands of the Kyrgyz people and the Russian Far East, India, China and Japan. He provides fascinating descriptions of cities and peoples and events in the closing years of the 19th century. It's a fascinating travelogue.
Part 2 recounts the stories of other great explorers/adventurers/villains: Gordon at Khartoum, Livingstone and Stanley in Africa, the destruction of the Inca empire by Pizzaro, hunting the blue whale in southern waters, Shackleton's near miss of the South Pole...even a mention of Alexander Selkirk, as an excuse for retailing the adventures of Robinson Crusoe. It's a very mixed bag, designed to appeal "to young people." (Summary by Steven Seitel)
Part 1 tells of Hedin's own extensive travels across Europe and Asia. Hedin visited Turkey, the Caucasus, Tehran, Iraq, lands of the Kyrgyz people and the Russian Far East, India, China and Japan. He provides fascinating descriptions of cities and peoples and events in the closing years of the 19th century. It's a fascinating travelogue.
Part 2 recounts the stories of other great explorers/adventurers/villains: Gordon at Khartoum, Livingstone and Stanley in Africa, the destruction of the Inca empire by Pizzaro, hunting the blue whale in southern waters, Shackleton's near miss of the South Pole...even a mention of Alexander Selkirk, as an excuse for retailing the adventures of Robinson Crusoe. It's a very mixed bag, designed to appeal "to young people." (Summary by Steven Seitel)
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