Author: HEDIN, SVEN
Title: Across the Gobi Desert
Description: New York, Dutton & Co. 1933, 3-Rd. Edition. Cloth, Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, xxii, 402 PP. plus 2 folding maps and 67 pages of plates from photographs, containing 114 illustrations. Also with a sketch map in the text. Preface by the author, to the English edition: August 7-Th. 1928, and translated from the German by H.J.Cant. The expedition described in this book formed into a purely Swedish and Chinese undertaking in the summer of 1928 and although they were well sponsored and supported it was a hazardous and dangerous undertaking. A very good copy [apart for some unobstrusive foxing] of the 3Rd. impression. Fine/Poor.

Keywords: Hedin. Gobi Desert. Travel. Sven Hedin.


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