Sven Hedin - Trans-Himalaya Discoveries
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Author: Hedin, Sven
Title: Trans-Himalaya, Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet
Place Published: New York
Publisher:The Macmillan Company
Date Published: 1909
Description:
Author: Hedin, Sven
Title: Trans-Himalaya, Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet
Place Published: New York
Publisher:The Macmillan Company
Date Published: 1909
Description:
2 volumes. 436 pp.; 439 pp. (8vo) 22x14.5 cm (8¾x5¾"), red cloth, top edge gilt, pictorial gilt. First American Edition.
Copiously illustrated with plates after photographs and maps, including three fold-out maps at the rear of volume II. Sven Hedin was a Swedish geographer and author, who illustrated many of his own works. He traveled across Central Asia four times and discovered, among other locations, the Transhimalaya, which was at once point referred to as the "Hedin Range" in his honor.
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Spines sunned, with closed tears; folding maps lightly wrinkled near spine; else very good.
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