Dragon Hunter

Dragon Hunter
Author: Charles Gallenkamp
Publisher: Penguin Group
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The first full-blown account of Roy Chapman Andrews, a gun-toting, snake-hating fossil exploring scientist who discovered the velociraptor. Fighting sandstorms and bandits, political intrigue and civil wars, Andrews' search for dinosaurs is cloaked in a sweeping historical narrative.16 pp. photos.

On the Trail of Ancient Man

On the Trail of Ancient Man
Author: Roy Chapman Andrews
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2017-11-21
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780331600919

Excerpt from On the Trail of Ancient Man: A Narrative of the Field Work of the Central Asiatic Expeditions We now turn to the northern hemisphere, to the Arctogaea or homeland area of animal dispersal in the dawn period of the mammalian life on the soil of the northern hemisphere. First, on Opposite sides of the globe we observe two great colonies, one in Europe and one in the Rocky Mountain region of America, which are full of different degrees of kin dred in their mammalian life; yet they are separated by ten thousand miles of intervening land in which not a single similar form is found. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Pagan Holiday

Pagan Holiday
Author: Tony Perrottet
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2009-05-06
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0307558908

The ancient Romans were responsible for many remarkable achievements—Roman numerals, straight roads—but one of their lesser-known contributions was the creation of the tourist industry. The first people in history to enjoy safe and easy travel, Romans embarked on the original Grand Tour, journeying from the lost city of Troy to the Acropolis, from the Colossus at Rhodes to Egypt, for the obligatory Nile cruise to the very edge of the empire. And, as Tony Perrottet discovers, the popularity of this route has only increased with time. Intrigued by the possibility of re-creating the tour, Perrottet, accompanied by his pregnant girlfriend, sets off to discover life as an ancient Roman. The result is this lively blend of fascinating historical anecdotes and hilarious personal encounters, interspersed with irreverent and often eerily prescient quotes from the ancients—a vivid portrait of the Roman Empire in all its complexity and wonder.

Among the Cannibals

Among the Cannibals
Author: Paul Raffaele
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2009-10-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0061983276

It's the stuff of nightmares, the dark inspiration for literature and film. But astonishingly, cannibalism does exist, and in Among the Cannibals travel writer Paul Raffaele journeys to the far corners of the globe to discover participants in this mysterious and disturbing practice. From an obscure New Guinea river village, where Raffaele went in search of one of the last practicing cannibal cultures on Earth; to India, where the Aghori sect still ritualistically eat their dead; to North America, where evidence exists that the Aztecs ate sacrificed victims; to Tonga, where the descendants of fierce warriors still remember how their predecessors preyed upon their foes; and to Uganda, where the unfortunate victims of the Lord's Resistance Army struggle to reenter a society from which they have been violently torn, Raffaele brings this baffling cultural ritual to light in a combination of Indiana Jones-type adventure and gonzo journalism. Illustrated with photographs Raffaele took during his travels, Among the Cannibals is a gripping look at some of the more unsavory aspects of human civilization, guaranteed to satisfy every reader's morbid curiosity.

On the Trail of Ancient Man

On the Trail of Ancient Man
Author: Roy Chapman Andrews
Publisher:
Total Pages: 375
Release: 1930
Genre: Central Asiatic expeditions of the American museum of natural history
ISBN:

Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs

Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs
Author: Ann Bausum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2000
Genre: Central Asiatic Expeditions
ISBN: 9780439309257

A biography of the great explorer-adventurer, who discovered huge finds of dinosaur bones in Mongolia, pioneered modern paleontology field research, and became the director of the American Museum of Natural History.