Sven Hedin Maps Tibet
Overview
At the beginning of the nineteenth century approximately four-fifths of the land area in the world was still virtually unknown to the Western world. In particular, there...
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Sven Anders Hedin
1865-1952
Swedish Explorer
Swedish explorer Sven Hedin enjoyed a life of adventure that many would have envied. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, at a time when t...
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Sven Hedin
Born February 19, 1865, Stockholm, Sweden Died November 26, 1952
Sven Anders Hedin was born into a prominent family in Stockholm, Sweden. While in high school he became interested in geog...
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Sven Anders Hedin (1865-1952) was a Swedish explorer and geographer whose investigations in Tibet and western China make him one of the most eminent explorers of Asia.Sven Hedin was born on Feb. 19, 1...
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