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...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...
...rafts died of their wounds. Their comrades buried them in the sea. After five hours a ship throbbed near through the night. They signaled it with torches. It was a Swedish freighter, one of the convoy coming back. "They did so well for us," explained Sven Olander, "I did not want to leave them there...
...WANDERING LAKE-Sven Hedin-Dufton...
...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...
...Sweden, Göring's man Sven Olaf Lindholm was at last reports still at large...