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Title: From Pole to Pole
A Book for Young People

Author: Sven Anders Hedin

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FROM POLE TO POLE

A Book for Young People

by

SVEN HEDIN

[Illustration: DR. SVEN HEDIN IN TIBETAN DRESS. _Frontispiece._]

The MacMillan Co. of Canada, Ltd.
Toronto

MacMillan and Co., Limited
St. Martin's Street, London
1914

Copyright
First Edition 1912
Reprinted 1914

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

This translation of Dr. Sven Hedin's _Fran Pol till Pol_ has, with
the author's permission, been abridged and edited for the use of
English-speaking young people.

CONTENTS

PART I

I. ACROSS EUROPE-- PAGE

STOCKHOLM TO BERLIN 1
BERLIN 4
BERLIN TO CONSTANTINOPLE 8
CONSTANTINOPLE 13
THE CHURCH OF THE DIVINE WISDOM 15
THE BAZAARS OF STAMBUL 20

II. CONSTANTINOPLE TO TEHERAN (1905)--

THE BLACK SEA 26
TREBIZOND TO TEHERAN 29

III. THROUGH THE CAUCASUS, PERSIA, AND MESOPOTAMIA
(1885-6)--

ST. PETERSBURG TO BAKU 34
ACROSS PERSIA 37
ARABIA