Riddles of the Gobi Desert

Abstract

IN this volume, the narrative of the Sino-Swedish expedition to the Gobi Desert, which was at work continuously from 1927 until 1933, carries the story on for a further period of two years. It resumes with the author's return journey to Sinkiang from Sweden in 1928, and closes with reports covering the work of exploration up to the end of 1929. As the author was busily engaged in the administrative work of the expedition in China, and was further distracted by a journey to the United States, which was extended to Sweden, on account of his health, he was unable to take the field in person; and his detail is necessarily drawn from the reports of his colleagues. His narrative is none the less absorbing and, when he is dealing with the incidents of his own journeys, is vivid in its sketches of persons and events.

Riddles of the Gobi Desert.

By Sven Hedin. Translated from the Swedish by Elizabeth Sprigge and Claude Napier. Pp. x + 382 + 24 plates. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1933.) 18s. net.