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قراءة كتاب From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People
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From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People
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FROM
POLE TO POLE
A BOOK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
BY
SVEN HEDIN
DR. SVEN HEDIN IN TIBETAN DRESS.
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO
1914
First Edition 1912
Reprinted 1914
PUBLISHERS' NOTE
This translation of Dr. Sven Hedin's Från Pol till Pol has, with the |
author's permission, been abridged and edited for the use of |
English-speaking young people. |
CONTENTS
PART I | |
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I. Across Europe— | PAGE |
Berlin to Constantinople | 8 |
Constantinople | 13 |
The Church of the Divine Wisdom | 15 |
The Bazaars of Stambul | 20 |
II. Constantinople to Teheran(1905)— | |
The Black Sea | 26 |
Trebizond to Teheran | 29 |
III. Through the Caucasus, Persia, and Mesopotamia(1885-6)— | |
St. Petersburg to Baku | 34 |
Across Persia | 37 |
Arabia | 40 |
Baghdad to Teheran | 42 |
IV. The Persian Desert(1906)— | |
Across the Kevir | 46 |
The Oasis of Tebbes | 51 |
V. On the Kirghiz Steppe(1893-5)— | |
Into Asia from Orenburg | 55 |
Samarcand and Bukhara | 59 |
The Pamir | 62 |
"The Father of Ice-Mountains | 66 |
A Kirghiz Gymkhana | 69 |
VI. From Persia to India (1906)— | |
Tebbes to Seistan | 72 |
A Baluchi Raid | 75 |
Scorpions | 80 |
The Indus | 82 |
Kashmir and Ladak |