My Life as an Explorer – Sven Hedin (1925)

S$78.00

My Life as an Explorer – Sven Hedin (1925)

S$78.00

Title: My Life as an Explorer

Author: Sven Hedin

Publisher: Garden City, New York, 1925.

Condition: Hardcover, good. Some soiling to spine. Edges tanned and slightly dust-stained. Front and back hinges cracked, exposing netting, but binding is firm throughout. Previous owner’s bookplate and inscription to endpaper. Text clean.  544pp., app 10″ by 6.5″. Overseas shipping will cost extra.

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About the book (from Goodreads):

Over the course of three decades in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Sven Hedin traveled the ancient Silk Road, discovered long-lost cities, mapped previously uncharted rivers, and saw more of the roof of the world than any European before him. Written in the exuberant, enthusiastic style of Richard Halliburton’s The Royal Road to Romance, this epic memoir captures the splendor of nowvanished civilizations, the excitement of unearthing ancient monuments, the chilling terrors of snow-clogged mountain passes, and the parching agony of the desert. Hedin climbs accursed mountains in China, 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. A worldwide bestseller in the 1920s, it today introduces a new generation to a man of exceptional daring and accomplishment. The book is illustrated with 160 of Hedin’s own drawings.