CENTRAL ASIA 

 AND TIBET 



Towards the Holy City of Lassa 



BY 



SVEN HEDIN 



Gold Medallist of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain 

 Author of "Through Asia," etc. 



With 420 Illustrations from Drawings and Photographs, Eight Full-page Coloured 

 Illustrations from Paintings, and Five Maps, mostly by the Author. 



In Two Volumes. Royal 8vo. 

 £2 2s. net. 



EXTRACTS FROM SOME REVIEWS. 



"Tliis is a remarkable book apou a very remarkable journey. It is probably oue of the last great 

 narratives of geuuine pioneer trarel." — The Times. 



*' No one need hesitate to read for himself iu the volumes before lis the story of tliese three years" 

 wanderings. The interest begins at the first page and endures to the end, and that interest is of the most 

 varied kind."— Dk. J. SCOTT-KELllE in The Morning Post. 



"The publication of these volumes is especially timely to-day, at the very moment when news reaches 



England that our troops are about to advance into Tibet Welcomed among geographers all over the 



world." — Daily Telegraph. 



" ' Central Asia and Tibet ' will long be one of our standard books of travel."— S/((/?rf((/'d. 



*' At last the book has appeared at a dramatic moment, when the news has just reached us from Tibet that 

 a British expedition has advanced into that jealously guarded country." — Daily Chronicle. 



'* The work of a born explorer. It is a book that to all lovers of adventure, as well as to the more 

 scientifically inclined, will be most welcome."— Z>a//y Express. 



" Dr. Sven Heilin has compiled a record which riclily deserves its simultaneous issue in eleven editions, 

 and though ttie other translations may not be equal to the English (which is perfect), no vicarious faults can 

 dim the lustre or impair the abiding value of what is iacontestably a master work." — Pall Mall Gazette. 



" The present book is of universal interest, which will be welcomed wlierever his bold spirit of adventure 

 awakes an enviously responsive chord." — St, Jajnea's Giuefte. 



*' It goes without saying, that there is nothing more in the simultaneous publication of the book and of 

 the news that Col. Younghusband's force is to advance up the Chumbi Valley, than a grand stroke of luck for 

 Messrs. Ilurst and Blackett."— 2'/if Out-look. 



" To the general reader Dr. Hedin's book will be a source of wonderment and delight ; it presents 

 graphically and picturesquely marvellous experiences," — Bii-minghain Post, 



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