Preliminary catalogue of the Sven Hedin map library
Journal
Himalayan Research Bulletin
ISSN
0891-4834
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2000-02-01
Author(s)
Abstract
Sven Hedin (1865-1952) is now remembered in continental Europe and Japan mostly for his travel accounts of Tibet and Turkestan, and not for his scientific survey of Central Asia. The English versions of his books have not been reprinted since the late1960's and are now collector's items. Who would resists the urge of paying good money for the 1941 edition of A Conquest of Tibet, that the book jacket describes as: "a hair-raising account of an actual journey into the barbaric interior of a strange, forbidden country." Dr. Hedin's talent for sharing with a popular audience tales of his feats as a Ladakhi merchant has somehow contributed to diminishing his scholarly status in our collective memory. The enthusiastic crowds that greeted him in 1909, when he received honorary doctoral degrees from the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and La Sorbonne, vanished a long time ago. His uncompromising pro-German position and his vocal support of the Nazi regime later turned him into an embarrassing academic figure who is now almost forgotten.
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Language
English
Keywords
Sven Hedin (1865-1952)
geography of Central Asia
cartography of Central Asia
history of geography
Sven Hedin Foundation
National Museum of Ethnography of Stockholm
National Archives of Sweden
map catalogue
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Dep. of Geography
Publisher place
Portland, Or.
Volume
19
Number
1
Start page
21
End page
55
Pages
35
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
215050