From Pole to Pole

About this eBook

Author

Hedin, Sven Anders, 1865-1952

Title

From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People

Credits

E-text prepared by Susan Skinner, Janet Blenkinship, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

Subject

Geography -- Juvenile literature

Category

Text

eBook-No.

20709

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20709

Release Date

February 28, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.FROM — POLE TO POLE — A BOOK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE — BY
2. 2.SVEN HEDIN — DR. SVEN HEDIN IN TIBETAN DRESS. — PUBLISHERS' NOTE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.LIST OF MAPS
6. 6.PART I
7. 7.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:
8. 8.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:
9. 9.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:
10. 10.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.
11. 11.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:
12. 12.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:
13. 13.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
14. 14.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
15. 15.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
16. 16.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:
17. 17.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:
18. 18.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:
19. 19.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:
20. 20.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:
21. 21.PART II
22. 22.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.
23. 23.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.
24. 24.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.
25. 25.SOUTH AMERICA — The Inca Empire — SOUTH AMERICA. — PLATE XXXV. COTOPAXI. — The Amazons River — PLATE XXXVI. INDIAN HUTS ON THE AMAZONS RIVER.
26. 26.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.
27. 27.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:
28. 28.THE SOUTH POLAR REGIONS — THE SOUTH POLAR REGIONS. — THE END
29. 29.By Dr. SVEN HEDIN — TRANS-HIMALAYA — DISCOVERIES AND ADVENTURES IN TIBET — OVERLAND TO INDIA — With 308 Illustrations and 2 Maps. — A SELECTION OF
30. 30.WORKS OF TRAVEL, SPORT, Etc. — Transcriber's Note:

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