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In Secret Mongolia

English · Paperback / Softback

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Translated from the Swedish by Elizabeth Sprigge and Claude Napier.

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Henning Haslund-Christensen was born in Copenhagen on 31 August 1896, and graduated from the Østersøgades Gymnasium in Copenhagen. He enrolled at the Army Academy and in 1918 was appointed second lieutenant in the Danish Army. In 1932, he married Inga Margit Lindstrom, daughter of C.F.J. Lindstrom of the Royal Swedish Navy and an Adjutant to H.M. the King of Sweden.

In the early 1920s, Haslund joined a group led by a Danish physician named Carl Krebs, who aimed to establish a dairy farm in northern Mongolia, close to the Russian border. They travelled via China and Ulaanbaatar, and established themselves in what is today Erdenebulgan sum in Khovsgol province. However, the dairy farm project failed due to Mongolia coming under stronger Soviet influence, and Haslund left Outer Mongolia in the mid-1920s.

Fascinated by the Mongol way of life, Haslund remained in Inner Mongolia for the following years, e.g. joining Sven Hedin for the Sino-Swedish Scientific Expedition of the late 1920s.

After the war, Haslund organised and led the Third Danish Expedition to Central Asia, which lasted six years. A first team, consisting of anthropologists, botanists, geographers, and zoologists would work during 1948 and 1949 in Afghanistan, from Nuristan in the east to Herat in the west, under his leadership. This would extend scientific knowledge to the south-east of the Pamirs and Iran explored respectively by Ole Olufsen in 1896-7 and C. G. Feilberg in 1936. Unfortunately, Haslund's death in 1948 left the Expedition leaderless and the expedition members finished their work as best they could. A new leader was appointed in 1950 but the rest of the plan for the expedition was never accomplished due to the political situation from 1950 onwards.

He died of heart failure in Kabul on 13 September 1948

Product details

Authors Henning Haslund-Christensen
Publisher Adventures Unlimited Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.07.1995
 
EAN 9780932813275
ISBN 978-0-932813-27-5
No. of pages 300
Dimensions 156 mm x 234 mm x 35 mm
Weight 652 g
Series Mystic Traveller
Subjects Guides > Spirituality > Miscellaneous
Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Esoterics: general, reference works

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