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Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs: A Photobiography of Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews
64 pp.
| National |
March, 2000 |
TradeISBN 0-7922-7123-8$$17.95
(4)
YA
Focusing on the explorer's expeditions in Asia in the 1920s and the numerous fossil species his team discovered, the book provides limited information on Andrews's later tenure as director of the American Museum of Natural History. The drama of exploring the Gobi Desert is more successfully captured in the volume's monochromatic photographs than in the lackluster prose. A chronology is included. Bib., ind.