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Author : Roy Chapman Andrews
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
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Download or read book Under a Lucky Star, a Lifetime of Adventure [by] Roy Chapman Andrews written by Roy Chapman Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy Chapman Andrews
Publisher : Speath Press
ISBN 13 : 1443731625
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Under a Lucky Star - A Lifetime of Adventure written by Roy Chapman Andrews and published by Speath Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TJCNTDER A LUCKY A. Lifetime of the Same Author ON THE TRAIL OF ANCIENT MAN ENDS OF THE EARTH THE NEW CONQUEST OF CENTRAL ASIA THIS BUSINESS OF EXPLORING THIS AJVtAZING PLANET Under a Lucky Star A Lifetime of Adventure ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS Blue Ribbon Books Garden City, N. Y. Lontents Chapter i Adventure Comes Early 1 1 2 I Meet a Whale 2 1 3 Submarine Courtship 32 4 Muscles and Murderers 40 5 Yokohamas Yoshiwara 50 6 Robinson Crusoes Isle 60 7 Typhoon 69 8 Yesterday in Japan 79 9 Strictly Personal Explorations 93 10 - Korean Devilfish and Killers 101 1 1 The Long White Mountain 1 09 12 A Harem on the Rocks 119 1 3 The Blue Tiger 126 1 4 Yunnan Adventures 135 15 Wartime Interlude 146 16 Dog Eats Man 158 1 7 Wall Street Ramblings 1 66 1 8 My Peking Palace 179 19 Marching Sands of the Gobi 185 20 The Emperors Bride 198 2 1 Where the Dinosaur Laid Her Eggs 210 8 CONTENTS Chapter 22 The Valley of the Jewels 217 2 3 The Great Dinosaur Egg Auction 225 2 4 Desert Dune Dwellers 235 25 Motoring Through a War 242 2 6 Politics and Palaeontology 251 27 Fate Takes a Hand 261 2 8 Dangling in the Depths 2 74 29 A Square Peg in a Round Hole 287 30 Berkshire Paradise 294 CHAPTER ONE Adventure Comes Early OFTEN I have had to sit on a lecture platform when I was going to speak, and listen to a long introduction. It bored me stiff and likewise the audience. I wanted to get at the business in hand and the job I came for. Thats the way I feel about this book. It is the story of a life in which I have had a lot of fun and excitement. So Tin going to begin the tale as quickly as possible without going back into an account of my ancestry and f amily Apropos of which George Putnam quotes the remark of a visitingauthor to his uncle Major Putnam, die matter of ancestry is all very interesting. Only, the present is so much more important than the past. I always think people who are too much concerned with the pedigree of their fore fathers are apt to be like potatoes the best part of them is underground. Of my early days there will be just enough to give a back ground for what follows. I dont think anyone except myself would give a tinkers damn about those boyhood years. As a rule, nothing of much interest happens to a young man until he is out of college. One chapter ought to suffice for the essential preliminaries. I was born in Beloit, Wisconsin, at approximately two oclock in the morning of January 26, 1884, when the temperature was thirty degrees below zero. I am told that my eyes were so slanted that when Father first looked at me he said, Why, Ive ii 12 UNDER A LUCKY STAR begot a Chinaman That remark was current in our family long before, in later life, I went to China to live for eighteen years. Beloit lay on the banks of the Rock River in a part of south ern Wisconsin that was all fields and woods and rushing streams. I was like a rabbit, happy only when I could run out of doors. To stay in the house was torture to me then, and it has been ever since. Whatever the weather, in sun or rain, calm or storm, day or night, I was outside, unless my parents almost literally locked me in. The greatest event of my early life was when, on my ninth birthday, Father gave me a little single-barrel shotgun. Previous to this I had been allowed to shoot Grandfathers muzzle loader once or twice, but it was too much f pr me to negotiate with its forty-inch-long barrel. It was with that little gun that Iliterally blew up my first wild goose. I was hunting just at dusk on the edge of a marsh north of Beloit. Six magnificent wild geese floating on a tiny patch of water showed up against the sunset sky. To stalk them, I had to crawl for nearly half a mile in mud and water, mostly on my stomach. Finally, I was near enough to shoot. At the roar of my gun, the three geese slowly collapsed with a gentle hissing sound, and out of a clump of bushes jumped Fred Fenton, a local sportsman. The sounds Fred made were far from gentle hissings...
Author : Roy Chapman Andrews
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447488091
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Under a Lucky Star - A Lifetime of Adventure written by Roy Chapman Andrews and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under a Lucky Star is the autobiography—the lifetime of adventure—of the explorer and archaeologist Roy Chapman Andrews. Adored by the public and pursued by the press, Andrews came as close to superstar status in the 1920s as any explorer of the twentieth century. Much of Under a Lucky Star focuses on his grandest adventure, the Central Asiatic Expeditions, a series of five daring journeys into uncharted expanses of the Gobi Desert that produced a previously unknown treasure-trove of dinosaur remains. The Gobi region explored by Andrews and his team of scientists proved to be one of the most fruitful sites on earth for late dinosaurs and it continues to yield extraordinary paleontological discoveries.
Author : Roy Chapman Andrews
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780353297920
Total Pages : 302 pages
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Download or read book Under a Lucky Star Alifetime of Adventure written by Roy Chapman Andrews and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Roy Chapman Andrews
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ISBN 13 : 9781298029706
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Author : Roy Chapman Andrews
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Total Pages : 144 pages
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Download or read book Under a Lucky Star written by Roy Chapman Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy Chapman Andrews
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Total Pages : 414 pages
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Author : Roy Chapman Andrews
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Total Pages : 312 pages
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Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547526148
Total Pages : 357 pages
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Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 9780449234211
Total Pages : 175 pages
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029580372X
Total Pages : 327 pages
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ISBN 13 : 0316382507
Total Pages : 461 pages
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Download or read book The Dinosaur Artist written by Paige Williams and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 2018 New York Times Notable Book,Paige Williams "does for fossils what Susan Orlean did for orchids" (Book Riot) in her account of one Florida man's attempt to sell a dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia--a story "steeped in natural history, human nature, commerce, crime, science, and politics" (Rebecca Skloot). In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: "a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton." In fact, Lot 49135 consisted of a nearly complete T. bataar, a close cousin to the most famous animal that ever lived. The fossils now on display in a Manhattan event space had been unearthed in Mongolia, more than 6,000 miles away. At eight-feet high and 24 feet long, the specimen was spectacular, and when the gavel sounded the winning bid was over $1 million. Eric Prokopi, a thirty-eight-year-old Floridian, was the man who had brought this extraordinary skeleton to market. A onetime swimmer who spent his teenage years diving for shark teeth, Prokopi's singular obsession with fossils fueled a thriving business hunting, preparing, and selling specimens, to clients ranging from natural history museums to avid private collectors like actor Leonardo DiCaprio. But there was a problem. This time, facing financial strain, had Prokopi gone too far? As the T. bataar went to auction, a network of paleontologists alerted the government of Mongolia to the eye-catching lot. As an international custody battle ensued, Prokopi watched as his own world unraveled. In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, The Dinosaur Artist is a stunning work of narrative journalism about humans' relationship with natural history and a seemingly intractable conflict between science and commerce. A story that stretches from Florida's Land O' Lakes to the Gobi Desert, The Dinosaur Artist illuminates the history of fossil collecting--a murky, sometimes risky business, populated by eccentrics and obsessives, where the lines between poacher and hunter, collector and smuggler, enthusiast and opportunist, can easily blur. In her first book, Paige Williams has given readers an irresistible story that spans continents, cultures, and millennia as she examines the question of who, ultimately, owns the past.
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801471060
Total Pages : 529 pages
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Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345316233
Total Pages : 174 pages
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Publisher : State History Publications
ISBN 13 : 1878592637
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