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Altai Mountains
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Roy Chapman Andrews wrote about Altai Mountains in two books. Here is what each book says, with excerpts.
- 1884–1943
Under a Lucky StarRoy Chapman Andrews
The mountain system running across western Mongolia; its desert spur, the Gobi Altai, throws up the ranges among which the expedition worked.
…the water, beyond a rim of fantastic sand dunes, toward the eastern Altai Mountains lay a new and enticing world, completely unexplored.Listen from here · chapter 19, 15:49…expedition had traveled from Urga by way of Sain Noin Khan to the Altai Mountains, where vast fields rich in Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils had been discovered,…Listen from here · chapter 20, 1:46 - 1922–1925
On the Trail of Ancient ManRoy Chapman Andrews
The mountain system running across western Mongolia; its desert spur, the Gobi Altai, throws up the ranges — Artsa Bogdo, Baga Bogdo, the Gurbun Saikhan — among which the expedition worked.
I looked up to see a lammergeier, that splendid vulture of the Altai, sweep down in a magnificent curve toward a tiny, whistling cony, which dived to shelter…Listen from here · chapter 11, 15:37…border of Chinese Turkestan; the trail we were on broke through the Altai Mountains and swung north to Uliassutai and Kobdo; for several hundred miles both east…Listen from here · chapter 19, 23:26
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