My Life as an Explorer: The Great Adventurers Classic Memoir (Kodansha Globe)

FROM THE SILK ROAD AND TIBET THE EPIC MEMOIR OF A BESTSELLING ADVENTURE Over the course of three decades Sven Hedin traveled the ancient Silk Road discovered long-lost cities mapped previously uncharted rivers and saw more of "the roof of the world" than any European before him. This epic memoir captures the splendor of now-vanished civilizations the excitement of unearthing ancient monuments the chilling terrors of snow-clogged mountain passes and the parching agony of the desert. A worldwide bestseller in the 1920s it today introduces a new generation to a man of exceptional daring and accomplishment. The book is illustrated with 160 of Hedins own drawings.