My Life as an Explorer - Softcover

Hedin, Sven

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798886770100

Verlag: Greenpoint Books, LLC, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Sven Hedin inherited the steel sinews of his Norse ancestors. During his many years of exploration he frequently put his physical capacities to extreme tests. He trained his constitution to stand an elevation of 19,000 feet above sea level and a temperature of 37 degrees below zero only to find himself a few months later staggering under a blistering sun in the dry river bed of a blazing desert with the thermometer at 113. He once started out with a caravan consisting of 130 beasts of burden, only to struggle weeks later to the gates of Lhasa with but eight horses and one mule. He survived ten days without food and half of that time without water, where natives succumbed to the rigors of the desert. He seemed to know every form of physical privation and touched the limits of human endurance. When a boy he was ambitious to be the first to reach "that point where only South winds blow." He found his destiny to lie in other lands, but the distinction he achieved was no less unique. With his many volumes of accounts of exploration and discoveries to draw from, Hedin in this great autobiography has compressed between two covers the most thrilling experiences of a lifetime of adventure.

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Sven Hedin (1865-1952) fue el último de los grandes exploradores, el último de los individualistas, quien durante la mayor parte de su carrera confió en sus propios poderes de observación y resistencia. Nacido en en Estocolmo, estudió bajo la tutela del reputado geógrafo alemán Ferdinand von Richthofen. Se convirtió en un excelente geógrafo, cartógrafo y artista; y alcanzó fama y fortuna tras sus exploraciones en Asia. No solo hizo que la exploración fuera emocionante a través de sus muchos libros y conferencias públicas, sino que los resultados científicos recopilados por Hedin y otros bajo su liderazgo se han convertido en su legado perdurable.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Greenpoint Books, LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798886770100
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 564
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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