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Wincor me 0 naps, Brockhaus, Lal great trilogy, Dr. Sven Hedin des-caribes In detail the perilous journey of his motor-caravan, across, dose! and mountains, to Chinese Turke tan. The Swedish explorer was commissioned by the Nanking Government to investigate the possibilities of blazing a motor road along the ident she trail which 2,000 years.
0 served as a link between Chi and Rome. The fall of the Roman Empire spelled the collapse of commercial intercourse between the two nations and the silk route was neglected and almost forgotten. Dr. Hedin received his commission 1083 and on expedition lasting eight motiths was arranged: actually it became an adventure stretched over: two long years and it Is this period, with all its unexpected happenings, which the author chronicles. in his present book. The first part of the trilogy, as wil! be remembered, described the rising in Sinkinng which centred on the picturesque Mohammedan leader, General Ma Chun yin, known a8 "the Big Horse.
Th the present book the curtain rises at Poking, the starting point of so. many great expedition: in the East, The actual motor trek starts at Kwelhwa, north-west of Tatung, and extends through the Gobi Urumisi, where the expedition was detained at midsummer. while civil strife blazed about the countryside. Afler no end of negotiations caravan was finally allowed to proceed when the authorities were ce vineed that Dr, Hedin die not want to go to Kansu, Later the expedition proceeded to Kutsa and nther locali~ ties between the 'Tien Shan range and the Sinkiang plateau, After two years of travelling the ndventute tended, at Sian, Throughout the book fare well-reproduced photographs taken tu route -by members of the' small "band, " including excellent mountain and desert scenes as well og Interesting portraits. The quality of the illustrations seems somewhat higher than in the first volume of the trilogy.
'Dr. Hedin visualizes the future trail' across Asia—the motor successor to the ancient camel route—running from Shanghai to Sian, than to Tunhuang, Kashgar, Samarkand, "Hekatompytos, "Seleucia and through Asia Minor to Stamboul. Then Budapest, Vienna, Berlin oF Paris. A bold and great scheme to span the vast continent of Europe Asia from the Atlantic te the Pacific
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