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1916 Travel Notes in Yunnan

1916 Travel Notes in Yunnan

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Subtitle: Expedition Notes of the American Museum of Natural History Central Asia Expedition Author: [US] Roy Chapman Andrews, etc. Translator: Hou Ye Press: Jincheng Press
ISBN: 9787515521022




This book is the notes of the world-renowned explorer and naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews in Fujian, Yunnan and other places in China from 1916 to 1917.

Andrews (1884~1960) is one of the most famous explorers and naturalists in the 20th century. He is famous for his scientific expeditions to China, Mongolia and other places and the discovery of dinosaur egg fossils for the first time. Popular works on palaeoanthropology and paleoanthropology are popular among ordinary readers, and many people even think that his image of wearing a cowboy hat and carrying a revolver on his waist is the prototype of the famous Hollywood movie character-Indiana Jones.

This book is a notebook written by Andrews specially for natural history lovers. It truly and vividly records the natural environment, wild animals and social customs in Fujian and Yunnan in the 1920s, and focuses on the exploration team hunting in Fujian. Tiger, the experience of hunting serows, gibbons and other mammal specimens in Yunnan is an interesting and popular book on natural history, and it is also of practical significance in terms of ecological protection.

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