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A Baker & Taylor Academic Essentials Title in Genocide Studies 'If readers of The Explorer's Roadmap are looking to find the Hedin depicted by Peter Hopkirk in his Foreign Devils on the Silk Road (I980), they will be disappointed. Danielsson's Hedin is self-absorbed, ultra-conservative, elitist, and thoroughly a Germanophile. ...The Explorer's Roadmap provides a corrective to the overly positive portrayal of Hedin that has dominated for the sixty years since his death...' Terrae Incognitae 'Sarah Danielsson's study of the world famous Swedish explorer and geographer Sven Hedin is really well worth reading, characterized as it is by a deep-going analysis and a broad approach. In her book, she systematically uses both printed and unprinted sources, such as Hedin's diaries, and therefore, she can give a new and convincing picture of his racism, anti-Semitism and Nazi ideology. This book becomes a major contribution to the study of the pro-German intellectual elite and its world view during the first half of the 20th century.' Klas A...mark, Stockholm University, Sweden 'Danielsson has written an excellent book on the famed Swedish geographer Sven Hedin. She shows that Hedin was not only a renowned scientist, one of the last of the great explorers, and, still today, a Swedish national hero. He was also an avid Nazi with close ties to Hitler, Goebbels, and other Nazi leaders. Danielsson does much more than write an important biography. She also provides a critical intellectual history of geography as a discipline, and shows its deep historical connection to race thinking. She revives and updates Hannah Arendt's remarkable analysis of pan-Germanism. This is a rich, insightful book with connections to many fields of knowledge. ' Eric D. Weitz, City College, City University of New York 'Any scholar interested in the intersections of history, geography, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust should read this book, engage with its material, and (as Danielsson begs in her co

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Professor Sarah K. Danielsson, The City University of New York, USA.

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