Volume 1

Central Asia and Tibet / [Sven Anders Hedin].

  • Sven Hedin
Date:
1903
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Credit: Central Asia and Tibet / [Sven Anders Hedin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. —•— INTRODUCTION. STOCKHOLM TO KASHGAR. CHAP. PAGE I.—From Stockholm to Osh ...... 3 II.—Over the Passes to Kashgar 14 III.—From Kashgar to the Yarkand-daria ... 40 II. FLOATING DOWN THE LONELY TARIM. A JOURNEY BY BOAT THROUGH THE DESERT. IV.—Boat-Building at Lailik ...... 63 V.—Life on the Upper Tarim ...... 87 VI.—The Enchanted Forest ...... 103 VII—A Reedy Lake and a Mountain Climb . . .118 VIII.—River-windings, Woods, and Masars. . . 134 IX.—The Lonely Tarim ....... 148 X.—First Signs of Winter . . . . . -163 XI.—With the Yumalak-daria Through the Desert . 183 XII.—Fighting the Drift-Ice 199 XIII. —Ice-Bound . . . 217 XIV. —In Winter Quarters ....... 234 XV.—Reconnoitring in the Desert—M. Bonin . . 246 III. . ACROSS THE TAKLA-MAKAN DESERT. THE LAND OF PERPETUAL TWILIGHT. XVI. —Traversing the Bayirs ...... 263 XVII.—In the Heart of the Desert . . . . .278 XVIII.—A Two Hundred Miles Ride in Fifty Degrees of Frost 296
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