Under a Lucky Star
- Published 1943
- 8 hrs 47 min
- 30 chapters
- AI narration
- Memoir
- Exploration
- Adventure
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This is Roy Chapman Andrews's own life story, from sweeping floors at the American Museum of Natural History to leading its most ambitious expeditions into unknown Asia.
By turns boyish and grand, it follows a self-made explorer who seemed to court fortune at every turn, surviving whales, typhoons, bandits, and the Gobi itself, and who helped shape the popular image of the field scientist as adventurer.
- Author
- Roy Chapman Andrews
- Source
- archive.org
Chapters
- Adventure Comes Early18 min
- I Meet a Whale20 min
- Submarine Courtship14 min
- Muscles and Murderers19 min
- Yokohama's Yoshiwara19 min
- Robinson Crusoe's Isle6 min
- Typhoon10 min
- Yesterday in Japan19 min
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- Strictly Personal Explorations26 min
- Korean Devilfish and Killers16 min
- The Long White Mountain16 min
- A Harem on the Rocks30 min
- The Blue Tiger16 min
- Yunnan Adventures21 min
- Wartime Interlude22 min
- Dog Eats Man15 min
- Wall Street Ramblings22 min
- My Peking Palace11 min
- Marching Sands of the Gobi24 min
- The Emperor's Bride23 min
- Where the Dinosaur Laid Her Eggs14 min
- The Valley of the Jewels13 min
- The Great Dinosaur Egg Auction18 min
- Desert Dune Dwellers12 min
- Motoring Through a War16 min
- Politics and Palaeontology18 min
- Fate Takes a Hand24 min
- Dangling in the Depths23 min
- A Square Peg in a Round Hole12 min
- Berkshire Paradise12 min
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- What is Under a Lucky Star about?
- The autobiography of explorer Roy Chapman Andrews, from a Wisconsin boyhood to leading the American Museum's daring expeditions into the Gobi Desert. Written by Roy Chapman Andrews and first published in 1943.
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- Yes. Under a Lucky Star (1943) is in the public domain; the full text is available from the original source, and Sonsoo narrates it end to end.
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