Download or read book From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People written by Sven Anders Hedin and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a travel adventure novel by the Swedish geographer and explorer, Sven Anders Hedrin. In the book Hedin describes his journeys through Asia and Europe between the late 1880s and the early 1900s. While traveling, Hedin visited Turkey, the Caucasus, Tehran, Iraq, lands of the Kyrgyz people and the Russian Far East, India, China and Japan. The book itself is intended as a description of the better known lands of his time and their inhabitants. In the first part of the book, Hedin's own voyages are described. The latter part however describe voyages undertaken by other famous explorers such as Livingstone, Stanley, Shackleton and Franklin.