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From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People

From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People

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Number of Chapters: 24

Length: 17 hours and 16 minutes

Language: English

This book was first published in 1912. It is a simplified English translation of the author's Från pol till pol: genom Asien och Europa (Bonnier, Stockholm, 1911).

Part 1 tells of Hedin's own extensive travels across Europe and Asia. Hedin visited Turkey, the Caucasus, Tehran, Iraq, lands of the Kyrgyz people and the Russian Far East, India, China and Japan. He provides fascinating descriptions of cities and peoples and events in the closing years of the 19th century. It's a fascinating travelogue.

Part 2 recounts the stories of other great explorers/adventurers/villains: Gordon at Khartoum, Livingstone and Stanley in Africa, the destruction of the Inca empire by Pizzaro, hunting the blue whale in southern waters, Shackleton's near miss of the South Pole...even a mention of Alexander Selkirk, as an excuse for retailing the adventures of Robinson Crusoe. It's a very mixed bag, designed to appeal "to young people." (Summary by Steven Seitel)

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Sec 1 Across Europe (Steven Seitel)
Sec 2 Constantinople to Teheran (1905) (Steven Seitel)
Sec 3 Through the Caucasus, Persia, and Mesopotamia (1885-6) (Steven Seitel)
Sec 4 The Persian Desert (1906) (Steven Seitel)
Sec 5 On the Kirghiz Steppe (1893-5) (Steven Seitel)
Sec 6 From Persia to India (1906) (Steven Seitel)
Sec 7 Eastern Turkestan (1895) (Steven Seitel)
Sec 8 The Western Waterway (1899) (Steven Seitel)
Sec 9 In the Forbidden Land (1901-2) (Steven Seitel)
Sec 10 India (Steven Seitel)
Sec 11 From India to China (1908) (Steven Seitel)
Sec 12 China (Steven Seitel)
Sec 13 Japan (Steven Seitel)
Sec 14 Back to Europe (Steven Seitel)
Sec 15 Stockholm to Egypt (Steven Seitel)
Sec 16 Africa, part 1 (Steven Seitel)
Sec 17 Africa, part 2 (Steven Seitel)
Sec 18 Africa, Part 3 (Steven Seitel)
Sec 19 North America, part 1 (Steven Seitel)
Sec 20 North America, part 2 (Steven Seitel)
Sec 21 South America (Steven Seitel)
Sec 22 In the South Seas (Steven Seitel)
Sec 23 The North Polar Regions (Steven Seitel)
Sec 24 The South Polar Regions (Steven Seitel)
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