- 300 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Under a Lucky Star - A Lifetime of Adventure
About this book
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.
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Information
Publisher
Speath PressYear
2013Print ISBN
9781406774016, 9781443731621eBook ISBN
9781447488095Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Contents
- Dedication
- 1 Adventure Comes Early
- 2 I Meet a Whale
- 3 Submarine Courtship
- 4 Muscles and Murderers
- 5 Yokohama’s Yoshiwara
- 6 Robinson Crusoe’s Isle
- 7 Typhoon
- 8 Yesterday in Japan
- 9 Strictly Personal Explorations
- 10 Korean Devilfish and Killers
- 11 The Long White Mountain
- 12 A Harem on the Rocks
- 13 The Blue Tiger
- 14 Yunnan Adventures
- 15 Wartime Interlude
- 16 Dog Eats Man
- 17 Wall Street Ramblings
- 18 My Peking Palace
- 19 Marching Sands of the Gobi
- 20 The Emperor’s Bride
- 21 Where the Dinosaur Laid Her Eggs
- 22 The Valley of the Jewels
- 23 The Great Dinosaur Egg Auction
- 24 Desert Dune Dwellers
- 25 Motoring Through a War
- 26 Politics and Palaeontology
- 27 Fate Takes a Hand
- 28 Dangling in the Depths
- 29 A Square Peg in a Round Hole
- 30 Berkshire Paradise