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

Author: Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews

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Language: English

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[Illustration: OUR CAMP ON THE SNOW MOUNTAIN
AT AN ALTITUDE OF 12,000 FEET]

CAMPS AND TRAILS IN CHINA

A NARRATIVE OF EXPLORATION, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT IN LITTLE-KNOWN CHINA

BY

ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS, M.A.

ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF MAMMALS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND
LEADER OF THE MUSEUM'S ASIATIC ZOOeLOGICAL EXPEDITION OF 1916-1917; FELLOW
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES; CORRESPONDING MEMBER ZOOeLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
LONDON, MEMBER OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON; AUTHOR OF 'WHALE
HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA'

AND

YVETTE BORUP ANDREWS

PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE ASIATIC ZOOeLOGICAL EXPEDITION

1918

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO PRESIDENT HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN AS AN EXPRESSION
OF GRATITUDE AND ADMIRATION

"Let us probe the silent places, let us seek what luck betide us;
Let us journey to a lonely land I know.
There's a whisper on the night-wind, there's a star agleam to guide us,
And the Wild is calling, calling ... let us go."

--_Service_.

PREFACE

The object of this book is to present a popular narrative of the Asiatic
Zooelogical Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History to China in
1916-17. Details of a purely scientific nature have been condensed, or
eliminated, and emphasis has been placed upon our experiences with the
strange natives and animals of a remote and little known region in the hope
that the book will be interesting to the general reader.

The scientific reputation of the Expedition will rest upon the technical
reports of its work which will be published in due course by the American
Museum of Natural History. To these reports we would refer those readers
who d