1903 CENTRAL ASIA & TIBET TOWARDS HOLY CITY of LASSA 2 VOLS antique ILLUSTRATED

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Title: 1903 CENTRAL ASIA & TIBET TOWARDS HOLY CITY of LASSA 2 VOLS antique ILLUSTRATED

Description: CENTRAL ASIA and TIBET
TOWARDS THE HOLY CITY of LASSA
With 420 illustrations from drawings and photographs, eight full-page coloured illustrations from paintings, and five maps, mostly by the author ...
by Sven Hedin
In two volumes, complete.
New York: Charles Scribners sons; 1903
Size 7 by 9 3/4 inches
Original cloth decorated in gilt.
Untrimmed edges
good interior condition, wear of bindings
Ex-library
Text in English

Sven Anders Hedin (1865 – 1952) was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator of his own works.
During four expeditions to Central Asia, he made the Transhimalaya known in the West and located sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej Rivers. He also mapped lake Lop Nur, and the remains of cities, grave sites and the Great Wall of China in the deserts of the Tarim Basin.
In his book Fran pol till pol (From Pole to Pole), Hedin describes a journey through Asia and Europe between the late 1880s and the early 1900s.
While traveling, Hedin visited Turkey, the Caucasus, Tehran, Iraq, lands of the Kyrgyz people and the Russian Far East, India, China and Japan.
The posthumous publication of his Central Asia Atlas marked the conclusion of his life's work.

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