Show I Life Story of Noted Explorer Rivals Fiction j I Travels of Sven Hedin Into I Remote Places Holds Reader Interest I IMy i iMy My Life As an Explorer by Sven Hadin Is la the life story of ot ono one of ot the greatest living explorers of ot our time It Is practically a tint tint- k fled fied book of his making epoch It rounds Into one con con- story atory the account of t hll 1 journeys which In hi their previous re form torm numbered numbered- many volumes The book Is certain to take high l Jh I rank In the worlds world's literature of ot autobiography and travel Rich as our generation Is In exploring ex x achievements It has no career career ca ca- ca reer to set against that of ot Sven Hedin who overcame not only ba bar bar- of nature but the more more perilous peril perU ous barriers of man raised by su sir I 1 and fanaticism Sven Hedin traveled through hitherto unexplored portions of ot Tibet a a. forbidding and forbidden land high up In the center of mysterious mysterious mysterious mys mys- Asia on th the plat plateau au of the Himalayas which has been called The Roof of the Vord He was wasat wasat wasat at the court of ot Tashi Lama the Vatican and St. St Peter of Asia where the strangest and most moat el elaborate borate religious holds sway He traveled through the mountain moun- moun tam tain fastnesses of ot absolutely Unknown un unknown un- un known parts of Tibet and covered very great parts of or the enormous mountain system which he called caned Trans He discovered the ruins of ot old Buddhist and Chinese Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese cities In the deserts of ot Cantral Central Central Cen Can Asia and once he lost the whole of ot his caravan from thirst The practically unexplored hinterlands of ot Persia and Mesopotamia the magnificent ruins of once glorious Khorasan and the wild wastes of ot Turkestan m also appear In his stor story Map makers have been een able to tUlIn fill tUl fillIn fillIn In many bare spots on the map of Asia since his journe Journeys sA s A number of or great travel books are the monuments to these ad adventures adventures ad- ad ventures but In ip this autobiography these works have been simplified and brought together b by him Into a a. single and unified stor story story story-a a a heroic book In which mysterious taciturn Asia and the mount mountain ln deserts of Arctic cold form the main back ground I The spirit and flair of or Sven Hedin's own illustrations add the vivid color of truth and the adventurers adventurer's adventurers adventurer's adventurers adventurer's personal Insight Liv Liveright right New Y York rk |