Word: hedin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Open recruiting for the Nazi Party has brought into camp Swedish Army and Navy officers, judges, university students, many noblemen and noblewomen, Explorer Sven Hedin...
...Stockholm went Finland's hardy old Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim to receive from the Swedish Geographic Society the Sven Hedin Medal for map work accomplished during his 8,750-mile horseback expedition across Asia 35 years...
...Wandering Lake. In 1933 Sweden's famed Explorer Sven Hedin was hired by the Chinese Government to explore the Silk Road, ancient caravan route of Marco Polo fame. Purpose: to build a motor highway connecting Sinkiang (Chinese Turkestan) with Soviet Russia. (Completed in 1938, this 2,000-mile highway soon became one of China's two last links with the outside world.) The Wandering Lake is Sven Hedin's third book to result from that 1933-35 expedition (others: The Flight of the Big Horse, The Silk Road...
Around A. D. 330 it suddenly disappeared, reappeared farther south. Lou-Ian, the city bordering it, became a sandswept ruin; the rich surrounding country went back to desert. In 1901 Hedin predicted that the lake would return to its old bed. In 1921 it did. He tells the story of Lop-nor, describes his explorations on and around...
Among adventurers Hedin has one unusual fault: his writing is often too stiffly exact...