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 Dragon Hunter, Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions Charles Gallenkamp • Michael Novacek (Introduction) BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2002 • PAPER • 344 PAGES • COMING IN
A crowd-pleasing biography of explorer, mammalogist and American Museum of Natural History director Roy Chapman Andrews (1884-1960), a flamboyant character said to be the inspiration for Indiana Jones. Gallenkamp devotes appropriate attention to Chapman Andrews' front-page exploits in Central Asia in the 1920s, particularly his discoveries in the Gobi, where Chapman found the first fossil dinosaur eggs at a locality in Mongolia he christened the Flaming Cliffs.
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