The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

NOT every man, in fact not every explorer, in his seventieth year would enjoy being captured by Chinese bandits. But for Sven Anders Hedin it is simply part of the day’s work. For half a century this Swedish doctor has been exploring the remote, and although the discovery of unmapped territory sometimes leads to complications in the Foreign Office, it should be said that Sven Hedin has been specially honored by the King of Sweden and was awarded an honorary K.C.I.E. by the Indian Government.