我的探险生涯 II

My Life as an Explorer #2

by Sven Hedin, 斯文·赫定, 李宛蓉 (Translator)

受诺登斯科德探险队的启发，瑞典探险家斯文·赫定于1885年夏展开首次亚洲之旅，由俄属中亚进入波斯，逐步走向亚洲心脏地带。五年后，他跟随一支驼队从俄国东部小城抵达中国边陲重镇喀什，这次行程让他与中国的新疆、西藏地区结下不解之缘。又过了三年，赫定再度造访中亚进行探险考察，重点是塔里木地区，全程达10498公里；之后，他多次深入中国西域与穷山恶水搏斗，试图攀登“冰山之父”慕士塔格峰，挑战“死亡之地”塔克拉玛干沙漠，其中最受世人瞩目的成就是发现楼兰古城，以及重新界定罗布泊的位置。

382 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 1, 2016

About the author

Sven Hedin was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer, and illustrator of his own works. During four expeditions to Central Asia, he discovered the Transhimalaya (once named the Hedin Range in his honor) and the sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej Rivers, 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 Från Pol till Pol, Hedin describes a journey through Asia and Europe between the late 1880s and early 1900s. While traveling, Hedin visited Constantinople (Istanbul), oil-rich Azerbaijan in times of the Nobel Brothers, Teheran, Mesopotamia (Iraq), lands of the Kyrgyz people, India, China, Asiatic Russia and Japan.