Re: Roy Chapman Andrews biography

["Roger Smith" <jollyroger@wave.co.nz>]

Ben,

Roy Chapman Andrews biography is available from Amazon.com.  Click this
address http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670890936/drdrumsnotforpro
and I note they are offering it at a 30% discount and 27 sample pages to
view !

Thanks for the recommendation

Roger


Original Message -----
From: "Ben Landis" <diverben@yahoo.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 12:36 PM
Subject: Roy Chapman Andrews biography


> Just writing to recommend a terrific book I just
> finished:
>
> _Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central
> Asiatic Expeditions_
> by Charles Gallenkamp
> Viking 2001, ISBN 0670890936
>
> It gives a great account of Andrew's beginnings, his
> ascent through the ranks of AMNH and his associations
> with Henry Fairfield Osborn, and of course, his
> coordination and leadership of the Central Asiatic
> Expeditions.  Not much paleontology (says
> _Velociraptor_ "exhibited . . . especially thick
> feathers"), but the personalities, politics, and
> trials and triumphs that are described made this book
> hard to put down.  Makes anyone want to lead their own
> romantic adventures and explorations into the
> wilderness!  Yeah, Andrews is(was) THE man!
>
>
>
>
> Ben Landis
> student
> University of California, Davis
>
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