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Chapters: Sven Hedin, Adolf Erik Nordenski ld, Salomon August Andr e, Gustaf Nordenski ld, Mikael Strandberg, Charles John Andersson, Lars-Eric Lindblad, Louis Palander, Peter Forssk l, Pehr Kalm, Otto Nordenski ld, Axel Wilhelm Eriksson, Rolf Blomberg, Folke Bergman, Alfred Gabriel Nathorst, Nils Gustaf Ekholm, Eric Von Rosen, Sten Bergman, Ren Malaise, Fredric Hasselquist, Carl Gustaf Ekeberg, Nils Strindberg, Knut Fr nkel, Otto Martin Torell, Carl Skottsberg, Paul Knutson, Lorenz Lange, Ester Blenda Nordstr m. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 121. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sven Anders Hedin KNO1kl RVO (19 February 1865 in Stockholm 26 November 1952 in Stockholm) was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, and travel writer, as well as an illustrator of his own works. During four expeditions to Central Asia he discovered the Transhimalaya (once named the Hedin Range in his honor) and the sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej Rivers, Lake Lop Nur, and the remains of cities, grave sites and the Great Wall of China in the deserts of the Tarim Basin. The posthumous publication of his Central Asia atlas marked the conclusion of his lifes work. Sven Hedin - oil painting by Carl Emil sterman (1923). Sven Hedin lived with family members in the upper three stories this house in Stockholm, Norr M larstrand 66, from 1935 until his death in 1952. At 15 years of age, Sven Hedin witnessed the triumphal return of the Arctic explorer Adolf Erik Nordenski ld after his first navigation of the Northern Sea Route. From that moment on, young Sven aspired to become an explorer. His studies under the German geographer and China expert Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen awakened a love of Germany in Sven and strengthened his resolve to undertake expeditions to Central A...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=529134

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 32 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series

Edition: Unknown

ISBN-10: 115590477X

Publication Date: Aug. 16th, 2011

ISBN-13: 9781155904771

Dimensions: 7.44 x 9.69 x 0.07 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.17 lbs

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