This Business of Exploring

by Roy Chapman Andrews

Pp. xix, 288; 31 full-page black-and-white photos, endpaper maps. Publisher's original gray textured cloth, lettered in red over black on the spine and front cover, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo. Documents the Central Asiatic Expeditions of 1928, 1929 and 1930 led by Roy Chapman Andrews. The volume also describes the chaos in China in 1926 and 1927 and how it delayed field work until 1928. A fascinating account of the problems of organizing an expedition in a foreign land. Inscription from Paul H. Nesbeth on the from blank endpaper.

Hardcover

First published July 2, 2011

About the author

Roy Chapman Andrews was an American explorer, adventurer and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History. He is primarily known for leading a series of expeditions in China in the early 20th century into the Gobi Desert and Mongolia. The expeditions made important discoveries and brought the first-known fossil dinosaur eggs to the museum. His popular writings about his adventures made him famous.