hedin | Greatest Adventurers https://www.greatestadventurers.com Free Public Domain PDF e-books about adventurers, explorers, sailors and mountaineers from all over the world – and exciting novels of adventure. Be inspired and learn how the world was discovered. Tue, 23 Feb 2021 07:52:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://www.greatestadventurers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-logo-grøn-trans-mindre-32x32.png hedin | Greatest Adventurers https://www.greatestadventurers.com 32 32 A Conquest of Tibet https://www.greatestadventurers.com/a-conquest-of-tibet/ https://www.greatestadventurers.com/a-conquest-of-tibet/#respond Mon, 18 Jan 2021 11:53:45 +0000 http://greatestadventurers.com/?p=587 A Conquest of Tibet by Svend Hedin is the amazing tale of a journey to the inner Tibet. The book was published in 1935 and was instantly a success. Hedin had the decades before published books from his fascinating and ... Read more and download PDF

The post A Conquest of Tibet first appeared on Greatest Adventurers.]]> A Conquest of Tibet by Svend Hedin is the amazing tale of a journey to the inner Tibet. The book was published in 1935 and was instantly a success. Hedin had the decades before published books from his fascinating and perilous adventures in remote and unknown areas of Asia. Every child knew his name in his homeland Sweden, and his books were translated into many languages. A Conquest of Tibet was his second adventure in Tibet and here he tells the story of everyday life in the forbidden country of the Dalai Lama. At that time only a very few Europeans had ever crossed the dangerous, and icy passes, fewer still had ever penetrated to the holy city of Lhasa. Svend Hedin had a sense of putting himself in dramatic situations and in the book you will find accounts of barbaric savages attacking, hordes of yaks charging and strange customs of the forgotten people at the top of the world. The books is richly illustrated by Hedin himself. From the book:

“I counted a dozen horsemen with bifurcated guns thrown over their shoulders. Islam, Parpi, Lobsang and I took a stand on the crest of a small hill eight feet high, back of which the other men and the caravan had cover. We were eight against twelve, three guns against a dozen. But ours were the better weapons. We threw off our fur coats. The men from East Turkestan were in fearful anguish, and as for myself I found the situation far from reassuring. The Tanguts could readily secure reinforcements from the nearby valleys and annihilate us, or in any event fleece us of everything even to the bare skin of our bodies. On the surface I indicated no apprehension, but calmly lit my pipe.”

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The post A Conquest of Tibet first appeared on Greatest Adventurers.]]> https://www.greatestadventurers.com/a-conquest-of-tibet/feed/ 0 Riddles of the Gobi Desert https://www.greatestadventurers.com/riddles-of-the-gobi-desert/ https://www.greatestadventurers.com/riddles-of-the-gobi-desert/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2020 11:14:02 +0000 http://greatestadventurers.com/?p=517 Riddles of the Gobi Desert by Swedish explorer Sven Hedin. Sven Hedin’s fourth expedition from 1927 and 1935 to Asia led him to Mongolia, the Gobi Desert and Xinjiang. The goal was to map the areas, search for remains of ... Read more and download PDF

The post Riddles of the Gobi Desert first appeared on Greatest Adventurers.]]> Riddles of the Gobi Desert by Swedish explorer Sven Hedin. Sven Hedin’s fourth expedition from 1927 and 1935 to Asia led him to Mongolia, the Gobi Desert and Xinjiang. The goal was to map the areas, search for remains of ancient sites and to conduct meteorological research. Hedin’s mapping leter led to the construction of chinese roads to some of the isolated and mountainous areas. The expeditions took place in disputed areas and Hedin was attacked by villains and arrested by the Chinese General Ma Zhongying. When he was released he went to Beijing to meet with President Lin Sen.

The long travel was expensive and left Hedin in a difficult financial situation. After his return to Europe, he held 111 lectures in 91 German cities as well as 19 lectures in other countries. He met Adolf Hitler in Berlin before his lecture there on 14 April 1935.

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