Through Asia
By: by Sven Hedin ; with nearly three hundred illustrations from sketches and photographs by the author
Contributors: Bealby, J. T. (John Thomas), 1858-1944, translator
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
Publisher: Methuen & Company
Published: 1898
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1278
Subjects: Description and travel
Work titles: Färd genom Asien
Notes: Translated from the Swedish by J.T. Bealby.

Includes index.

English translation from the Swedish language of "Färd genom Asien."

Volume 1 preliminary pages: xx. volume 2 preliminary pages: xii. Continuous paging (1278 pages).

Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Résumé of central Asian exploration; title: The plan and objects of my journey; title: Across Russia to Orenburg; title: Across the Kirghiz Steppes; title: From Lake Aral to Tashkend; title: From Tashkend to Margelan; title: The Syr-Daria; title: A winter journey over the Pamirs. Up the Isafaïran Valley; title: Over the Tenghiz-Bai Pass; title: Up the Alaï Valley; title: Over the Trans-Alaï; title: Lake Kara-Kul; title: Population of the Russian Pamirs; title: Geographical summary; title: Fort Pamir; title: The Mus-Tagh-Ata and its glaciers. From the Murghab to Bulun-Kul; title: Mus-Tagh-Ata; title: An attempt to climb Mus-Tagh-Ata; title: Reminiscences of a Kashgar; title: A Chinese dinner-party; title: From Kashgar to Ighiz-Yar; title: Through the Gorge of Tenghi-Tar; title: The plain of Tagharma; title: Among the Kirghiz; title: Little Kara-Kul Lake; title: Little Kara-Kul Lake (continued); title: Amongst the glaciers of Mus-Tagh-Ata; title: My second attempt to ascend Mus-Tagh-Ata; title: My third attempt to ascend Mus-Tagh-Ata; title: Moonlight on Mus-Tagh-Ata; title: To Fort Pamir and back; title: Boating adventures on the Little Kara-Kul; title: Life among the Kirghiz; title: Return to Kashgar; title: Across the Takla-Makan Desert. To Maral-Bashi; title: An excursion to the Masar-Tagh; title: The Shrine of Ordan Padshah; title: On th threshold of the desert; title: The start from Merket; title: Skirting the desert; title: An earthly paradise; title: In the ban of the desert; title: The camels break down; title: No water left; title: The camp of death; title: The crisis comes; title: A desperate march; title: Human beings at last; title: With the shepherds of the Khotan-Daria; title: A rescue party; title: Down the Kotan-Daria; title: From Ak-Su to Kashgar.; title: A summer trip to the southern Pamirs. Over the Ullug-Art Pass; title: With the Anglo-Russian Boundary Commission; title: Festivities on the Roof of the World; title: Over the mountains to the Yarkand-Daria and to Kashgar; title: Across the Desert of Gobi to Lop-Nor. From Kashgar to Kargalik; title: Alongside the desert to Khotan; title: City and oasis of Khotan; title: Borasan and its archæological remains; title: History of Khotan; title: The buried city of Takla-Makan; title: A curious shepherd race; title: Down the Keriay-Daria; title: Where the wild camel lives; title: Where is the Tarim?; title: Through the forests of the Tarim; title: At Korla and Kara-Shahr; title: The Lop-Nor problem; title: A boat excursion on the northern Lop-Nor; title: Along Przhevalsky's Lob-Nor by boat; title: The return to Khotan; title: The sequel of my desert journey; title: Through northern Tibet and Tsaidam. Over the Kwen-Lun Passes; title: My caravan : its several members; title: We enter uninhabited regions; title: Amongst the spurs of the Arka-Tagh; title: Searching for a pass; title: The deceitful Taghliks; title: Over the Arka-Tagh at last; title: The wild ass; title: Hunting the wild yak; title: Lakes without end; title: Tibetan storms; title: Discoveries of inscribed stones; title: Inhabited regions again; title: Among the Mongols of Tsaidam; title: Through the Desert of Tsaidam; title: Among the Mongolian lakes; title: An encounter with Tangut robbers; title: From Tsaidam to Peking. Through the country of the Tanguts; title: Koko-Nor; title: From Koko-Nor to Ten-Kar; title: The temple of ten thousand images; title: Si-ning-Fu and the Dungan Revolt; title: From Sin-Ning-Fu to Liang-Chow-Fu; title: Through the Desert of Ala-Shan; title: Wang-Yeh-Fu and Ning-Sha; title: To Peking and home.