By News Desk 2

Sven Hedin in the News

Editor’s Note: Sven Hedin was one of the twentieth century’s greatest explorers. He was also a masterful writer who produced many gripping memoirs of his travels and discoveries in Central Asia, Mongolia, and the Himalayas. Hedin was one quarter Jewish (his mother’s father was a Jew). This fact was known to Hitler and the other Nazis whom Hedin befriended. It...