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الوصف
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Introduction. Résumé of central Asian exploration -- The plan and objects of my journey -- Across Russia to Orenburg -- Across the Kirghiz Steppes -- From Lake Aral to Tashkend -- From Tashkend to Margelan -- The Syr-Daria -- A winter journey over the Pamirs. Up the Isafaïran Valley -- Over the Tenghiz-Bai Pass -- Up the Alaï Valley -- Over the Trans-Alaï -- Lake Kara-Kul -- Population of the Russian Pamirs -- Geographical summary -- Fort Pamir -- The Mus-Tagh-Ata and its glaciers. From the Murghab to Bulun-Kul -- Mus-Tagh-Ata -- An attempt to climb Mus-Tagh-Ata -- Reminiscences of a Kashgar -- A Chinese dinner-party -- From Kashgar to Ighiz-Yar -- Through the Gorge of Tenghi-Tar -- The plain of Tagharma -- Among the Kirghiz -- Little Kara-Kul Lake -- Little Kara-Kul Lake (continued) -- Amongst the glaciers of Mus-Tagh-Ata -- My second attempt to ascend Mus-Tagh-Ata -- My third attempt to ascend Mus-Tagh-Ata -- Moonlight on Mus-Tagh-Ata -- To Fort Pamir and back -- Boating adventures on the Little Kara-Kul -- Life among the Kirghiz -- Return to Kashgar -- Across the Takla-Makan Desert. To Maral-Bashi -- An excursion to the Masar-Tagh -- The Shrine of Ordan Padshah -- On th threshold of the desert -- The start from Merket -- Skirting the desert -- An earthly paradise -- In the ban of the desert -- The camels break down -- No water left -- The camp of death -- The crisis comes -- A desperate march -- Human beings at last -- With the shepherds of the Khotan-Daria -- A rescue party -- Down the Kotan-Daria -- From Ak-Su to Kashgar., A summer trip to the southern Pamirs. Over the Ullug-Art Pass -- With the Anglo-Russian Boundary Commission -- Festivities on the Roof of the World -- Over the mountains to the Yarkand-Daria and to Kashgar -- Across the Desert of Gobi to Lop-Nor. From Kashgar to Kargalik -- Alongside the desert to Khotan -- City and oasis of Khotan -- Borasan and its archæological remains -- History of Khotan -- The buried city of Takla-Makan -- A curious shepherd race -- Down the Keriay-Daria -- Where the wild camel lives -- Where is the Tarim? -- Through the forests of the Tarim -- At Korla and Kara-Shahr -- The Lop-Nor problem -- A boat excursion on the northern Lop-Nor -- Along Przhevalsky's Lob-Nor by boat -- The return to Khotan -- The sequel of my desert journey -- Through northern Tibet and Tsaidam. Over the Kwen-Lun Passes -- My caravan : its several members -- We enter uninhabited regions -- Amongst the spurs of the Arka-Tagh -- Searching for a pass -- The deceitful Taghliks -- Over the Arka-Tagh at last -- The wild ass -- Hunting the wild yak -- Lakes without end -- Tibetan storms -- Discoveries of inscribed stones -- Inhabited regions again -- Among the Mongols of Tsaidam -- Through the Desert of Tsaidam -- Among the Mongolian lakes -- An encounter with Tangut robbers -- From Tsaidam to Peking. Through the country of the Tanguts -- Koko-Nor -- From Koko-Nor to Ten-Kar -- The temple of ten thousand images -- Si-ning-Fu and the Dungan Revolt -- From Sin-Ning-Fu to Liang-Chow-Fu -- Through the Desert of Ala-Shan -- Wang-Yeh-Fu and Ning-Sha -- To Peking and home., by Sven Hedin ; with nearly three hundred illustrations from sketches and photographs by the author., Translated from the Swedish by J.T. Bealby., Includes index., Main Heritage Shelves General, DS8 .H44 1898 vol. 2, Book, vol. 2, Item-ID: i10230592, BIB-ID: 1024695 |
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الصيغة
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print, 2 volumes (xx, xii,1,278 pages) : illustrations, maps (2 folded), portraits ; 25 cm, unmediated, volume |
