
From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People
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- FROM POLE TO POLE
- A BOOK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
- SVEN HEDIN
- DR. SVEN HEDIN IN TIBETAN DRESS.
- PUBLISHERS' NOTE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- LIST OF MAPS
- PART I
- I ACROSS EUROPE
- Stockholm to Berlin
- MAP SHOWING JOURNEY FROM STOCKHOLM TO BERLIN.
- Berlin
- PLATE I. BERLIN.
- Berlin to Constantinople
- MAP SHOWING JOURNEY FROM BERLIN TO CONSTANTINOPLE.
- Constantinople
- PLATE II. CONSTANTINOPLE.
- PLAN OF CONSTANTINOPLE.
- The Church of the Divine Wisdom
- The Bazaars of Stambul
- FOOTNOTES:
- II CONSTANTINOPLE TO TEHERAN (1905)
- The Black Sea
- Trebizond to Teheran
- MAP SHOWING (a) JOURNEY FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO TEHERAN (pp. 26-33); (b) LATTER PART OF JOURNEY TO BAKU (pp. 34-35); AND (c) JOURNEY FROM BAKU ACROSS PERSIA TO BAGHDAD AND BACK TO TEHERAN (pp. 37-45).
- FOOTNOTES:
- III THROUGH THE CAUCASUS, PERSIA, AND MESOPOTAMIA (1885-6)
- St. Petersburg to Baku
- PLATE III. OIL-WELL AT BALAKHANI. A fountain of oil forced up by natural pressure.
- Across Persia
- Arabia
- Baghdad to Teheran
- PLATE IV. A PERSIAN CARAVANSERAI.
- FOOTNOTES:
- IV THE PERSIAN DESERT (1906)
- Across the Kevir
- PLATE V. THE AUTHOR'S RIDING CAMEL, WITH GULAM HUSSEIN.
- The Oasis of Tebbes
- PLATE VI. TEBBES. The tree in the foreground is a huge tamarisk.
- V ON THE KIRGHIZ STEPPE (1893-5)
- Into Asia from Orenburg
- MAP SHOWING JOURNEY FROM ORENBURG TO THE PAMIR (pp. 55-71).
- Samarcand and Bukhara
- The Pamir
- "The Father of Ice-Mountains"
- A Kirghiz Gymkhana
- FOOTNOTES:
- VI FROM PERSIA TO INDIA (1906)
- Tebbes to Seistan
- MAP SHOWING JOURNEY FROM TEHERAN TO BALUCHISTAN (pp. 46-54 and 72-81).
- A Baluchi Raid
- PLATE VII. A BALUCHI NOMAD TENT.
- Scorpions
- The Indus
- MAP OF NORTHERN INDIA, SHOWING RIVERS AND MOUNTAIN RANGES.
- Kashmir and Ladak
- PLATE VIII. SRINAGAR AND THE JHELUM RIVER.
- FOOTNOTES:
- VII EASTERN TURKESTAN (1895)
- The Takla-makan Desert
- MAP OF EASTERN TURKESTAN, SHOWING JOURNEYS DESCRIBED ON pp. 89-110.
- Across a Sea of Sand
- The End of the Caravan
- PLATE IX. DIGGING FOR WATER IN THE TAKLA-MAKAN.
- Water at Last
- VIII THE DESERT WATERWAY (1899)
- Down the Yarkand River
- PLATE X. THE AUTHOR'S BOAT ON THE YARKAND RIVER. The man with the white turban at the stern is Islam Bay.
- The Tarim
- The Wandering Lake
- Wild Camels
- IX IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND (1901-2, 1906-8)
- The Plateau of Tibet
- TIBET.
- Attempt to reach Lhasa
- The Tashi Lama
- PLATE XI. TASHI-LUNPO. From a sketch by the Author.
- Wild Asses and Yaks
- X INDIA
- From Tibet to Simla
- PLATE XII. SIMLA.
- Delhi and Agra
- MAP OF INDIA, SHOWING JOURNEY FROM NUSHKI TO LEH (pp. 82-88), AND THE JOURNEY FROM TIBET THROUGH SIMLA, ETC., TO BOMBAY (pp. 130-142).
- PLATE XIII. THE TAJ MAHAL.
- Benares and Brahminism
- PLATE XIV. BENARES.
- The Light of Asia
- Bombay
- The Useful Plants of India
- Wild Elephants
- PLATE XV. TAME ELEPHANTS AND THEIR DRIVERS.
- The Cobra
- FOOTNOTES:
- XI FROM INDIA TO CHINA (1908)
- The Indian Ocean
- The Sunda Islands
- THE SUNDA ISLANDS.
- Penang and Singapore
- Up the China Sea
- MAP SHOWING VOYAGE FROM BOMBAY TO HONG KONG (pp. 152-160).
- PLATE XVI. ON THE CANTON RIVER.
- FOOTNOTES:
- XII CHINA[14]
- To Shanghai
- "The Middle Kingdom"
- PLATE XVII. THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA.
- The Blue River
- In Northern China
- MAP OF NORTHERN CHINA AND MONGOLIA, SHOWING JOURNEY FROM TIBET THROUGH SI-NING TO PEKING, AND FROM PEKING TO KANSK (pp. 172-179). At the time of Dr. Hedin's journey through Mongolia, the Trans-Siberian Railway did not extend east of Kansk.
- PLATE XVIII. GATE IN THE WALLS OF PEKING.
- Mongolia
- Marco Polo
- FOOTNOTES:
- XIII JAPAN (1908)
- Nagasaki and Kobe
- MAP SHOWING JOURNEY FROM SHANGHAI THROUGH JAPAN AND KOREA TO DALNY (pp. 184-202).
- PLATE XIX. A JAPANESE RICKSHA.
- Fujiyama and Tokio
- PLATE XX. FUJIYAMA.
- PLATE XXI. THE GREAT BUDDHA AT KAMAKURA.
- Nikko, Nara, and Kioto
- FOOTNOTES:
- XIV BACK TO EUROPE
- Korea
- PLATE XXII. A SEDAN-CHAIR IN SEOUL.
- Manchuria
- The Trans-Siberian Railway
- THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY.
- The Volga and Moscow
- PLATE XXIII. THE KREMLIN, MOSCOW.
- St. Petersburg and Home
- FOOTNOTES:
- PART II
- I STOCKHOLM TO EGYPT
- To London and Paris
- MAP SHOWING JOURNEY FROM STOCKHOLM TO PARIS.
- PLATE XXIV. PARIS. Looking eastwards from Notre Dame.
- Napoleon's Tomb
- PLATE XXV. NAPOLEON'S TOMB. Hôtel des Invalides, Paris.
- Paris to Rome
- The Eternal City
- PLATE XXVI. THE COLOSSEUM, ROME.
- Pompeii
- MAP SHOWING JOURNEY FROM PARIS TO ALEXANDRIA.
- PLATE XXVII. POMPEII. The Forum, with Vesuvius in the distance.
- II AFRICA
- General Gordon
- MAP OF NORTH-EASTERN AFRICA, SHOWING EGYPT AND THE SUDAN.
- PLATE XXVIII. THE GREAT PYRAMIDS AT GHIZEH.
- The Conquest of the Sudan
- Ostriches
- Baboons
- The Hippopotamus
- PLATE XXIX. A HIPPOPOTAMUS.
- Man-eating Lions
- David Livingstone
- LIVINGSTONE'S JOURNEYS IN AFRICA
- How Stanley found Livingstone
- The Death of Livingstone
- Stanley's Great Journey
- PLATE XXX. THE FIGHT ON THE CONGO. From Stanley's Through the Dark Continent.
- Timbuktu and the Sahara
- NORTH-WEST AFRICA.
- PLATE XXXI. A GROUP OF BEDUINS.
- III NORTH AMERICA
- The Discovery of the New World
- TOSCANELLI'S MAP.
- New York
- PLATE XXXII. "SKY-SCRAPERS" IN NEW YORK.
- NORTH AMERICA.
- Chicago and the Great Lakes
- PLATE XXXIII. NIAGARA FALLS.
- Through the Great West
- PLATE XXXIV. CAÑONS ON THE COLORADO RIVER.
- IV SOUTH AMERICA
- The Inca Empire
- SOUTH AMERICA.
- PLATE XXXV. COTOPAXI.
- The Amazons River
- PLATE XXXVI. INDIAN HUTS ON THE AMAZONS RIVER.
- V IN THE SOUTH SEAS
- Albatrosses and Whales
- Robinson Crusoe's Island
- Across the Pacific Ocean
- THE SOUTH SEAS.
- PLATE XXXVII. A CORAL STRAND.
- Across Australia
- PLATE XXXVIII. COUNTRY NEAR LAKE EYRE.
- VI THE NORTH POLAR REGIONS
- Sir John Franklin and the North-West Passage
- THE NORTH POLAR REGIONS.
- The Voyage of the "Vega"
- Nansen
- PLATE XXXIX. THE "FRAM."
- FOOTNOTES:
- VII THE SOUTH POLAR REGIONS
- THE SOUTH POLAR REGIONS.
- THE END
- TRANS-HIMALAYA
- DISCOVERIES AND ADVENTURES IN TIBET
- OVERLAND TO INDIA
- With 308 Illustrations and 2 Maps.
- A SELECTION OF
- WORKS OF TRAVEL, SPORT, Etc.
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