Item #14676 Camps and Trails in China, A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China. Roy Chapman Andrews, Yvette Borup Andrews.

Camps and Trails in China, A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1918.

First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp xxv, 334, with illustrations from photographs, 2 folding maps. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt, no dust jacket. Spine toned, minor wear to extremities. Contents clean and sound. Husband and wife each authored chapters of this lively, popular account of the American Museum of Natural History's 1916-1917 Asiatic Zoological Expedition, which ventured into southern Vietnam, China, and Burma to survey mammal populations and plan for future paleontological research. Explorer and naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews was the expedition's leader, while his wife was its photographer and also kept daily journals of the trip. She contributed six chapters to the book, including those on women in China, "Stalking Tibetans with a Camera," and prisoners of war in Burma.

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