Abstract

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The article presents an overview of the two volumes "Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet, " by Sven Hedin. The volumes which describe his latest journeys in Tibet, Dr. Hedin carries the readers into a different region from that traversed in his previous explorations: a region almost as little known as were Eastern Turkestan and North Central Tibet before those explorations, and not less remarkable in its physical character. Hedin describes the incidents of each day's march in a plain, unvarnished way which gives the reader a sense of what the actual conditions of travel are in a wild, lonely, dreary country, where the hardships of cold, dirt and other forms of physical discomfort find compensation in the grandeur of snowy peaks, of vast prospects, and of brilliant atmospheric effects.