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Title: My Life as an Explorer by Sven Hedin ISBN: 0-7922-6987-X Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Adventure Story Like No Other
Comment: This is a tale wonderfully told of an explorer's quest to fill in the blank spots on the map of Asia. Not only does Hedin present a clear and highly entertaining view of his travels, but he also gives us a portrait of his character. He shows us that he is a man with high goals and is undeterred in achieving those goals, even when all odds are against him. He shows us that he is also a very caring man, very much concerned about the welfare of his men and his animals. He also is a man that is awestruck by nature and is very concerned about not unduly intruding upon it or unnecessarily destroying it.
But most of all, this is an adventure story that is just plain fun to read.
A suggestion to readers who are not very familiar with the geography of central Asia would be to have on hand some good maps as the ones Hedin draws are quite limited and often fail to give the perspective that may be desireable.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best travel book I have read too.
Comment: I concur with [email protected]. This book is exceptional. I could hardly put it down. You feel the excitement and intensity of his adventures, you begin to understand the force that drives him (and you respect him for it), and you meet the people and the places that make Turkestan and Tibet 100 years ago like no place that you could ever imagine.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best journal of exploration I have ever read
Comment: Sven Hedin's "My Life as an Explorer" is an exceptional work. Stylistically situated somewhere in between scholarly works such as those by Aurel Stein and pure "adventure for its own sake" works such as those by Thesiger, Hedin's explorations are astounding and wonderful stories. His bravery and thirst for adventure are unmatched--he seems to have a total inability to turn back from his goals. Yet the goals are noble, and his methods meticulous and scholarly, so one is not left with the impression that he is simply a daredevil seeking thrills. He singlehandedly filled in, in a fairly detailed manner, one of the last white spaces of "terra incognita" on the map of the world.
At certain moments in the book, especially (in my opinion) the discussions of the Lama Rinpoche, who vows to remain walled inside his cave for his entire life, Hedin's narrative reaches the heights of great literature, placing his work, I believe, among the greatest travel or exploration writings ever produced.
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Title: Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk ISBN: 0870234358 Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: March, 1984 List Price(USD): $17.09 |
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Title: Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road by Annabel Walker ISBN: 0295977302 Publisher: Hong Kong Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.02 |
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Title: The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk ISBN: 1568360223 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Hunted Through Central Asia by Paul Nazaroff, Malcolm Burr, Peter Hopkirk ISBN: 0192803689 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk ISBN: 1568360509 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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