On the Trail of Ancient Man
- Published 1926
- 8 hrs 32 min
- 21 chapters
- AI narration
- Exploration
- Science
- Travel
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Andrews's narrative of the Central Asiatic Expeditions' great gamble: to test the theory that Asia, not Africa, was the cradle of humankind.
The search for ancient man instead turned up one of the century's most famous discoveries: nests of dinosaur eggs in the red sandstone of the Gobi. This book tells the story of that scientific wager and the strange, magnificent country in which it played out.
- Author
- Roy Chapman Andrews
- Source
- archive.org
Chapters
- Foreword7 min
- Preface5 min
- Preparations29 min
- Some Preliminary Digressions24 min
- Hunting the "Golden Fleece"29 min
- Under Way39 min
- In the City of the Living God27 min
- Tenting in Lama Land24 min
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- A Kentucky Derby in the Gobi Desert29 min
- Finding the Baluchitherium25 min
- The Discovery of the Flaming Cliffs37 min
- Giant Beasts of Three Million Years Ago27 min
- New Work and Discoveries22 min
- Where the Dinosaur Hid Its Eggs24 min
- Professor Osborn Visits the Expedition9 min
- Bigger and Better Eggs29 min
- The Dune Dwellers of Mongolia30 min
- A Tragedy of the Gobi Desert24 min
- On the Trail of Ancient Man24 min
- The World's Oldest Mammals24 min
- Snakes and Fossils26 min
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- What is On the Trail of Ancient Man about?
- Andrews's narrative of the Central Asiatic Expeditions' hunt for the origins of humankind, unearthing dinosaur eggs and lost worlds beneath the Mongolian sands. Written by Roy Chapman Andrews and first published in 1926.
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