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IN 1935, towards the end of the journey chronicled in this volume, Dr. Sven Hedin marked the fiftieth anniversary of his departure on his first journey in Asia, to the exploration of which he has devoted his whole life. In congratulating him on the unimpaired energy and courage which enabled him to endure the hardships and dangers of Sinkiang in a state of civil war, we add our felicitations on the confidence and respect for his character and achievement shown by the Chinese, notoriously suspicious of foreign men of science, which induced their Government to entrust him with a mission of, to them, signal importance.
The Silk Road
Sven Hedin. Translated from the Swedish by F. H. Lyon. Pp. viii + 322 + 31 plates. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1938.) 18s. net.
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The Silk Road. Nature 143, 96–97 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143096a0
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