The new VW Crafter has been finding its place in the camper van market, in production campers like the Knaus Boxdrive to wild concepts like Volkswagen's own California XXL. But there's no better ...

KYOTO -- Sixty detailed copies of sketches by Swedish Silk Road explorer and topographer Sven Hedin (1865-1952) have been discovered more than 100 years after he spent time here, it has been learned.

Despite the Franciscan missions to the Mongols in the 13th century and the voyages of Marco Polo, Central Asia was to a very large extent still unknown as late as the middle of the 19th century. Only ...

“What a wonderful place to stay this must have been,” wrote the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin during his second visit to the ruins of Loulan, on the eastern outskirts of China’s Taklamakan Desert in ...

ANYONE who, with his ears, has heard Sven Hedin the explorer telling of his travels has come away with a knowledge of how the sagas sounded to the rapt group round the fire in the great hall hung with ...

ADMIRATION FOR THE NAZI REGIME IN GERMANY TEMPERED BY REJECTION OF ITS RACIAL THEORIES IS VOICED BY SVEN HEDIN, NOTED GEOGRAPHER AND TRAVELED IN HIS BOOK “GERMANY AND WORLD PEACE,” PUBLISHED HERE ...

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Sven Hedin was one of Sweden's most famous scientists. Back in the early 1900s he explored Central Asia and Mongolia, and became an international cartographer, hydrographer, photographer and author of ...

Chapter I by Sven Hedin. cf. p. 11. Preface signed: Sven Hedin. "Translated from the original Swedish manuscript"--p. 11. CHINESE LAMA TEMPLE POTALA OF JEHOL EXHIBITION OF HISTORICAL AND ...

Asked whether he is of Jewish origin, Dr. Sven Hedin, noted Swedish explorer of Tibet, in an interview on his arrived here today stated that his great grandfather was a Jew named Brod who emigrated ...

chmexrf copy 39088016965709 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Bernard Rosenfeld. CHINESE LAMA TEMPLE POTALA OF JEHOL : EXHIBITION OF HISTORICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS ...