# From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People

An audiobook by Sven Hedin, read by LibriVox volunteers (17 h 17 min, English).

This book was first published in 1912. It is a simplified English translation of the author's Från pol till pol: genom Asien och Europa (Bonnier, Stockholm, 1911). Part 1 tells of Hedin's own extensive travels across Europe and Asia. Hedin visited Turkey, the Caucasus, Tehran, Iraq, lands of the Kyrgyz people and the Russian Far East, India, China and Japan. He provides fascinating descriptions of cities and peoples and events in the closing years of the 19th century. It's a fascinating travelogue. Part 2 recounts the stories of other great explorers/adventurers/villains: Gordon at Khartoum, Livingstone and Stanley in Africa, the destruction of the Inca empire by Pizzaro, hunting the blue whale in southern waters, Shackleton's near miss of the South Pole...even a mention of Alexander Selkirk, as an excuse for retailing the adventures of Robinson Crusoe. It's a very mixed bag, designed to appeal "to young people." (Summary by Steven Seitel)

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## Chapters

1. Sec 1 Across Europe (1:04:11): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_01_hedin_64kb.mp3
2. Sec 2 Constantinople to Teheran (1905) (16:52): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_02_hedin_64kb.mp3
3. Sec 3 Through the Caucasus, Persia, and Mesopotamia (1885-6) (33:04): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_03_hedin_64kb.mp3
4. Sec 4 The Persian Desert (1906) (24:18): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_04_hedin_64kb.mp3
5. Sec 5 On the Kirghiz Steppe (1893-5) (45:25): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_05_hedin_64kb.mp3
6. Sec 6 From Persia to India (1906) (41:33): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_06_hedin_64kb.mp3
7. Sec 7 Eastern Turkestan (1895) (33:31): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_07_hedin_64kb.mp3
8. Sec 8 The Western Waterway (1899) (24:02): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_08_hedin_64kb.mp3
9. Sec 9 In the Forbidden Land (1901-2) (49:36): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_09_hedin_64kb.mp3
10. Sec 10 India (57:40): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_10_hedin_64kb.mp3
11. Sec 11 From India to China (1908) (20:37): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_11_hedin_64kb.mp3
12. Sec 12 China (1:03:08): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_12_hedin_64kb.mp3
13. Sec 13 Japan (31:24): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_13_hedin_64kb.mp3
14. Sec 14 Back to Europe (40:35): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_14_hedin_64kb.mp3
15. Sec 15 Stockholm to Egypt (54:39): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_15_hedin_64kb.mp3
16. Sec 16 Africa, part 1 (1:05:47): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_16_hedin_64kb.mp3
17. Sec 17 Africa, part 2 (1:06:45): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_17_hedin_64kb.mp3
18. Sec 18 Africa, Part 3 (47:00): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_18_hedin_64kb.mp3
19. Sec 19 North America, part 1 (30:44): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_19_hedin_64kb.mp3
20. Sec 20 North America, part 2 (56:40): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_20_hedin_64kb.mp3
21. Sec 21 South America (42:53): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_21_hedin_64kb.mp3
22. Sec 22 In the South Seas (50:56): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_22_hedin_64kb.mp3
23. Sec 23 The North Polar Regions (1:07:19): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_23_hedin_64kb.mp3
24. Sec 24 The South Polar Regions (7:58): https://archive.org/download/from_pole_to_pole_2208_librivox/poletopole_24_hedin_64kb.mp3