Sten Bergman in the Wild, Wild East
With train-robbing bandits and rugged mountain men who
hunted wild animals for a living, Korea in the 1930s may have
seemed more like the Wild West than East Asia. But that was the
kind of place Swedish environmentalist and explorer Dr. Sten
Bergman discovered when he first set foot in the so-called Hermit
Kingdom. He was fascinated by what he saw in this unwilling
Japanese colonial outpost, and he documented everything and
everyone he laid his eyes on, from the flora and fauna, to tiger
hunters, to the endearing people whom he encountered and befriended.