Exploring with Andrews

by Roy Chapman Andrews

Exploring with Andrews tells of the author's first days in the American Museum of Natural History and of his experiences in assembling the huge whale which dominates the Museum's great third floor gallery. It continues with an account of his first sealing expedition to Vancouver and Alaska and particularly of his hairbreadth escape from a small boat smashed into matchwood by the fluke of a crazed and wounded whale. From there the action shifts to the story of Dr. Andrews' Robinson Crusoe-like existence on an otherwise uninhabited island in the Philippines. There us then an account of an adventure with a huge python in Borneo and a fascinating account of the birds and animals in the forests there and in the forests of the Dutch East Indies. We are also introduced to a colony of 50,000 bats. The reader next finds the famous explorer traveling with a few natives in the wilderness of Northern Korea, a district which had never been penetrated before by a white man. As the natives moved into the region of the Long White Mountain from the Korean side, they were ready to desert and leave Dr. Andrews alone. Only his indominable courage carried the expedition through its final phases to the headwaters of the Yalu River, where they constructed rafts and floated to the sea on the opposite coast of Korea.

226 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1938

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.