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Across Mongolian Plains

Roy Chapman Andrews

  • Published 1921
  • 6 hrs 47 min
  • 21 chapters
  • AI narration
  • Travel
  • Exploration
  • Nature & Wildlife
  • Mongolia
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In the early 1920s the American Museum of Natural History sent Roy Chapman Andrews deep into Mongolia at the head of its Central Asiatic Expeditions. This is his account of those first motorcar journeys: racing antelope across the steppe, camping among nomads, and probing the Gobi for the fossils that would soon make the expedition famous.

Part adventure, part field naturalism, it captures a vast country at a hinge moment: still governed by old customs, yet about to be opened up by the automobile and the age of exploration Andrews came to embody.

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Chapters

  1. Preface7 min
  2. Introduction10 min
  3. Entering the Land of Mystery18 min
  4. Speed Marvels of the Gobi Desert21 min
  5. A Chapter of Accidents16 min
  6. New Travels on an Old Trail17 min
  7. Antelope Movie Stars17 min
  8. The Sacred City of the Living Buddha33 min
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  1. The Long Trail to Sain Noin Khan22 min
  2. The Lure of the Plains25 min
  3. Hunting on the Turin Plain25 min
  4. An Adventure in the Lama City14 min
  5. Mongols at Home26 min
  6. Nomads of the Forest20 min
  7. The Passing of Mongolian Mystery13 min
  8. The Great Ram of the Shansi Mountains30 min
  9. Mongolian Argali20 min
  10. The Horse-Deer of Shansi15 min
  11. Wapiti, Roebuck, and Goral15 min
  12. Wild Pigs: Animal and Human22 min
  13. The Great Park of the Eastern Tombs23 min

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What is Across Mongolian Plains about?
Roy Chapman Andrews recounts his Central Asiatic expeditions across 1920s Mongolia: chasing wildlife, filming a vanishing world, and crossing the Gobi by motorcar in search of the dawn of life. Written by Roy Chapman Andrews and first published in 1921.
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