My Life As an Explorer - Couverture souple

Hedin, Sven

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1590480767 ISBN 13 : 9781590480762

Editeur : Long Riders' Guild Press, 2001

Synopsis

This is that rarest of books, the one you grab when the house is on fire, or you're about to be marooned on a desert island with nothing else to read. Sven Hedin was not only one of the greatest explorers of the nineteenth century, he was also a brilliant storyteller. Nowhere does the Swedish author tell a tale of excitement, adventure, danger, travel, and hair-raising escape like he does in "My Life as an Explorer". Written in an engaging anecdotal style, Hedin explains how he first went to Persia in 1885. Even this first trip was full of mishaps, as he nearly lost his life riding across the snow-covered Elbruz mountains during a fierce snow-storm. Yet Hedin miraculously survived and went on to meet the Shah of Persia. Thus was set the pattern for his remarkable future, which was one part royalty and ten parts danger. "My Life as an Explorer" regales the reader with almost more adventure than one can bear to read. Hedin raids the burial grounds of a secret Asian sect. He courts disaster with the Emir of Bokhara. He climbs accursed mountains in China, discovers lost cities in the Gobi desert, infiltrates Tibet, outwits Torgut bandits, and of course becomes close friends with royalty from Peking to London, including the rulers of both the Russian and British empires. In short Hedin lived a life so full of adventure and escape that merely reading about it is exhausting. Illustrated with dozens of his own drawings, this remains the single most exciting adventure travel book written in the early twentieth century.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is an autobiography by the famous trans-himalayan explorer Sven Hedin, a native of Sweden, who has his name written in bold in the role of explorers of central Asia and Tibet. His long career lasted many decades and his pen turned out many classics of exploration like "Trans Himalayan", "Southern Tibet", "Riddles of the Gobi Desert", "Through Asia", "Journey through Persia, Mesopotamia and Caucasus", "Central Asia and Tibet", etcetera. Born in 1865, he commenced his career in 1885-86 when he travelled through Persia and Mesopotamia. Since then he was almost always on expedition, resting of a couple of years to write and then setting off again. He became a Swedish noble in 1902 and was knighted by the English king in 1909. In 1923 he travelled around the world through the United States, Mongolia and Russia. This book is a reprint of the 1929 edition.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Long Riders' Guild Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1590480767
• ISBN 13: 9781590480762
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 548
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible