Author:Sven Hedin
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a Swedish explorer, geographer, and travel writer, primarily remembered for accounts of his four expeditions to Central Asia. In the course of these expeditions, he located sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej Rivers, mapped lake Lop Nur, discovered the remains of cities, grave sites and the Great Wall of China in the deserts of the Tarim Basin. Hedin left detailed accounts of his trips to Constantinople (Istanbul), Caucasus, Tehran, Mesopotamia (Iraq), lands of the Kyrgyz people, India, China, Asiatic Russia, and Japan.
Works[edit]
- Trans-himalaya Discoveries And Adventures In Tibet Vol I
- Trans-himalaya Discoveries And Adventures In Tibet Vol II (1909)
- Through Asia Vol I
- Through Asia Vol II (1898)
- My Life As An Explorer (1926)
- A Conquest Of Tibet (1935)
Works about Sven Hedin[edit]
- "Hedin, Sven Anders," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Hedin, Sven Anders," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)
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