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Title: Across Mongolian Plains
A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest'

Author: Roy Chapman Andrews

Illustrator: Yvette Borup Andrews

Release Date: June 3, 2009 [EBook #29024]

Language: English

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ACROSS MONGOLIAN PLAINS

A Naturalist's Account of China's "Great Northwest"

BY

ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS

ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF MAMMALS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL
HISTORY, AND LEADER OF THE MUSEUM'S SECOND ASIATIC EXPEDITION.
AUTHOR OF "WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA," "CAMPS AND TRAILS IN
CHINA," ETC.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY YVETTE BORUP ANDREWS

Photographer of the Second Asiatic Expedition

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK: LONDON: MCMXXI

COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED TO

DR. J. A. ALLEN

WHO, THROUGH HIS PROFOUND KNOWLEDGE, UNSELFISH DEVOTION TO SCIENCE,
AND NEVER-FAILING SYMPATHY WITH YOUNGER STUDENTS OF ZOOLOGY HAS BEEN
AN EXAMPLE AND AN INSPIRATION DURING THE YEARS I HAVE WORKED AT HIS
SIDE.

PREFACE

During 1916-1917 the First Asiatic Expedition of the American Museum
of Natural History carried on zoological explorations along the
frontiers of Tibet and Burma in the little known province of
Yuen-nan, China. The narrative of that expedition has already been
given to the public in the first book of this series "Camps and Trails
in China." It was always the intention of the American Museum to
continue the Asiatic investigations, and my presence in China on
other work in 1918 gave the desired opportunity at the conclusion of
the war.

Having made extensive collections along the southeastern edge of the
great central Asian plateau, it was especially desirable to o