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Names and places inUnder a Lucky Star

Roy Chapman Andrews

Who and where you hear about in Roy Chapman Andrews's account: 12 places, 16 people, 1 people and 3 terms, each with the name it goes by today, in the order the narration reaches them.

Places

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  1. Long White Mountain

    Paektu / Changbai Mountain

    The sacred volcano on the Korea–Manchuria frontier, its summit white not with snow but with pumice and cupping a crater lake — the goal of Andrews' 1911–12 Korean expedition, inspired by Younghusband. It is Paektu (Baekdu) Mountain, called Changbai in Chinese.

    First heard in Chapter 11, The Long White MountainWikipedia

  2. Peking

    BeijingБээжинIn 6 other books ›

    The walled imperial capital of China and Andrews' home base for some twenty years — the city of his 'Peking palace' and the outfitting point for every desert season. Now Beijing.

    First heard in Chapter 12, A Harem on the RocksWikipedia

  3. Yunnan

    The mountainous, tribal far-southwest of China, where Andrews hunted along the Tibetan and Burmese borders. Its capital, which he calls Yunnan-fu, is the modern Kunming.

    First heard in Chapter 13, The Blue TigerWikipedia

  4. Snow Mountain

    The great peak above Li-chiang on the Tibetan frontier of Yunnan, rising some twenty thousand feet, where Andrews made what he called the most beautiful camp of his life while hunting goral and serow. It is the Jade Dragon (Yulong) Snow Mountain, above modern Lijiang.

    First heard in Chapter 14, Yunnan AdventuresWikipedia

  5. Gobi

    ГовьIn 5 other books ›

    The great desert of southern Mongolia and northern China — a waterless gravel plain that proved a fossil treasure-house. Its red beds drew the Central Asiatic Expeditions and made Andrews' name.

    First heard in Chapter 15, Wartime InterludeWikipedia

  6. Kalgan

    ZhangjiakouХаалганIn 5 other books ›

    The caravan town at a gate in the Great Wall where the motor caravans were outfitted and the climb onto the Mongolian plateau began. Today it is Zhangjiakou, in Hebei.

    First heard in Chapter 15, Wartime InterludeWikipedia

  7. Urga

    UlaanbaatarӨргөөIn 6 other books ›

    The monastic capital of Outer Mongolia, seat of the Living Buddha and of the autonomous Mongol government Andrews dealt with. Renamed Ulaanbaatar ('Red Hero') in 1924.

    First heard in Chapter 15, Wartime InterludeWikipedia

  8. Tola River

    Tuul RiverТуул голIn 3 other books ›

    The river that flows past Urga, on whose banks the Mongol princes pitched their summer palaces. It is the Туул гол (Tuul River).

    First heard in Chapter 16, Dog Eats ManWikipedia

  9. Uliassutai

    UliastaiУлиастайIn 5 other books ›

    A western Mongolian garrison and trading town under the Qing, on the routes toward the Altai. Today it is Uliastai, capital of Zavkhan Province.

    First heard in Chapter 19, Marching Sands of the GobiWikipedia

  10. Tsagan Nor

    Taatsiin Tsagaan NuurТацын цагаан нуурIn 1 other book ›

    The 'White Lake' basin in the Valley of the Lakes, northeast of the Gobi Altai, that served as the expedition's western base. It is Taatsiin Tsagaan Nuur in present-day Bayankhongor; the fossil beds nearby yielded the giant Baluchitherium.

    First heard in Chapter 19, Marching Sands of the GobiWikipedia

  11. Altai

    Алтайн нурууIn 1 other book ›

    The mountain system running across western Mongolia; its desert spur, the Gobi Altai, throws up the ranges among which the expedition worked.

    First heard in Chapter 19, Marching Sands of the GobiWikipedia

  12. Flaming Cliffs

    Ulaan EregУлаан ЭрэгIn 1 other book ›

    Andrews' name for the wall of wind-carved red sandstone that blazes at sunset — Улаан Эрэг ('the red cliffs'), one feature of the Bayanzag oasis in Ömnögovi. Here in 1923 the party found the first nests of dinosaur eggs and the little dinosaur Protoceratops, the discovery that made the expedition famous.

    First heard in Chapter 19, Marching Sands of the GobiWikipedia

People

  1. Osborn

    In 1 other book ›

    Henry Fairfield Osborn, palaeontologist and president of the American Museum of Natural History — Andrews' chief and patron, and the author of the theory that central Asia was the 'mother of the continents,' the cradle from which mammals dispersed. That idea was the premise of the Central Asiatic Expeditions, and Osborn runs through the autobiography as the man who shaped Andrews' museum career.

    First heard in Chapter 2, I Meet a WhaleWikipedia

  2. Morris K. Jesup

    Morris K. Jesup, banker, railroad financier, and philanthropist who served as president of the American Museum of Natural History's board of trustees from 1881 until his death in 1908. He was kind to the young Andrews in his first museum days.

    First heard in Chapter 2, I Meet a WhaleWikipedia

  3. J. P. Morgan

    J. Pierpont Morgan, the financier and American Museum trustee whose family firm underwrote much of the institution. Andrews recalls Morgan clearing a $125,000 deficit at a single dinner, going round the table naming each man's gift — 'Mr. Morgan didn't ask them, he told them.'

    First heard in Chapter 3, Submarine CourtshipWikipedia

  4. Younghusband

    In 1 other book ›

    Sir Francis Younghusband, the British soldier-explorer who crossed the Gobi in the 1880s and led the 1904 march to Lhasa. His book on the 'Long White Mountain' fired the young Andrews' wish to explore Korea.

    First heard in Chapter 11, The Long White MountainWikipedia

  5. Harry Caldwell

    In 1 other book ›

    The Reverend Harry R. Caldwell, an American missionary and big-game hunter who spent nineteen years in Fukien, south China. Famous for stalking the legendary 'blue tiger,' he is Andrews' companion in the southern hunting chapters.

    First heard in Chapter 13, The Blue TigerWikipedia

  6. Kublai Khan

    Хубилай хаанIn 3 other books ›

    Genghis Khan's grandson, founder of the Yuan dynasty and Mongol emperor of China — the 'Kubla Khan' of legend, whose memory still clung to the Mongolia Andrews knew.

    First heard in Chapter 14, Yunnan AdventuresWikipedia

  7. The Hutukhtu

    Bogd KhanБогд хаанIn 4 other books ›

    The Jebtsundamba Khutuktu, the 'Living Buddha' of Urga and third figure of the Lama hierarchy after the Dalai and Tashi Lamas. When Mongolia declared its autonomy in 1911 he became its theocratic god-king, the Bogd Khan.

    First heard in Chapter 15, Wartime InterludeWikipedia

  8. Genghis Khan

    Чингис хаанIn 7 other books ›

    Founder of the Mongol Empire, whom Andrews invokes as the colossus of Mongolia's heroic past — the conqueror whose horsemen rode from the Gobi to the gates of Europe.

    First heard in Chapter 16, Dog Eats ManWikipedia

  9. Dalai Lama

    Далай ламIn 2 other books ›

    The Dalai Lama, spiritual and temporal head of Tibet and first figure of the Lamaist hierarchy. Andrews' contemporary was the thirteenth holder of the office, who had taken refuge at Urga in 1904 during the British invasion of Tibet.

    First heard in Chapter 16, Dog Eats ManWikipedia

  10. Tashi Lama

    Panchen LamaIn 1 other book ›

    The Tashi Lama, second figure of the Lamaist hierarchy, seated at Tashilhunpo monastery in Tibet — the dignitary now usually called the Panchen Lama.

    First heard in Chapter 16, Dog Eats ManWikipedia

  11. Granger

    In 1 other book ›

    Walter Granger, the expedition's chief palaeontologist and second-in-command — a veteran American Museum fossil hunter who directed the digging at Iren Dabasu, the Flaming Cliffs, and the other great Gobi quarries.

    First heard in Chapter 18, My Peking PalaceWikipedia

  12. Berkey

    In 1 other book ›

    Charles P. Berkey, professor of geology at Columbia and the expedition's chief geologist. With Morris he worked out the structure and age of the Gobi formations that gave the fossils their place in time.

    First heard in Chapter 19, Marching Sands of the GobiWikipedia

  13. Morris

    In 1 other book ›

    Frederick K. Morris, geologist and Berkey's partner in mapping the rocks of central Asia. The two co-authored the expedition's geological volume.

    First heard in Chapter 19, Marching Sands of the Gobi

  14. Shackelford

    In 1 other book ›

    J. B. Shackelford, the expedition's photographer and cinematographer, whose sharp eye also made him a finder of fossils — it was Shackelford who first spotted the bone-strewn red beds of the Flaming Cliffs.

    First heard in Chapter 19, Marching Sands of the GobiWikipedia

  15. Olsen

    In 1 other book ›

    George Olsen, a fossil collector on the staff. At the Flaming Cliffs in 1923 it was Olsen who uncovered the first nest of dinosaur eggs ever recognized by science.

    First heard in Chapter 21, Where the Dinosaur Laid Her Eggs

  16. Billie

    Wilhelmina Christmas Andrews

    Wilhelmina 'Billie' Christmas, whom Andrews married in 1935 — his second wife and the companion of the later chapters, from the Berkshire farm to his last travels. 'Her name, by the way, was Wilhelmina Christmas, but no one ever called her that. She was Billie to all her friends.'

    First heard in Chapter 27, Fate Takes a Hand

Peoples

  1. Mongols

    МонголIn 2 other books ›

    The nomad herding people of the steppe, whose horsemanship, hospitality, and Lamaist faith fill Andrews' Mongolian chapters.

    First heard in Chapter 14, Yunnan AdventuresWikipedia

Terms

  1. Titanothere

    In 1 other book ›

    A 'beast of titanic size' — one of a group of large, rhinoceros-like horned mammals (brontotheres) of the early Tertiary. Their discovery in the Gobi helped tie Asia's ancient life to North America's.

    First heard in Chapter 19, Marching Sands of the GobiWikipedia

  2. Baluchitherium

    ParaceratheriumIn 1 other book ›

    A gigantic hornless rhinoceros of the Oligocene — the largest land mammal that ever lived, standing some eighteen feet at the shoulder. Granger's party quarried its huge bones near Tsagan Nor; it is now usually called Paraceratherium.

    First heard in Chapter 19, Marching Sands of the GobiWikipedia

  3. Protoceratops

    In 1 other book ›

    The 'first horned dinosaur,' a small plant-eating ceratopsian found by the hundreds in the red beds of the Flaming Cliffs. The nests of fossil eggs beside it were the first dinosaur eggs ever recognized by science — though decades later an embryo found inside one showed the eggs belonged not to Protoceratops but to the bird-like Oviraptor.

    First heard in Chapter 21, Where the Dinosaur Laid Her EggsWikipedia

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