My Life As an Explorer

In this classic memoir and travelogue, the Swedish explorer shares the story of his epic journey along the ancient Silk Road.

After a childhood spent reading tales of adventure in far-off places, Sven Hedin knew by the time he was twelve years old that he wanted to be an explorer. He lived in an age when maps still contained uncharted territories and he wished to travel to these mysterious destinations. By the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, he traveled along the Silk Road in ...