{"product_id":"2940014717014","title":"Across Mongolian Plains, A Naturalist\u0026#x2019;s Account of China\u0026#x2019;s \u0026#x201c;Great Northwest\u0026#x201d;","description":"This edition features\u003cbr\u003e • a linked Table of Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS (abridged list)\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003eEarly conquests of the Mongols — Why their power was lost — Independence of Outer Mongolia — China’s opportunity to obtain her former power in Mongolia — General Hsu Shu-tseng — Memorial to President of China — Cancellation of Outer Mongolia’s autonomy\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003eENTERING THE LAND OF MYSTERY\u003cbr\u003eArrival in Kalgan — The Hutukhtu’s motor car — Start for the great plateau — Camel caravans — The pass — A motor car on the Mongolian plains — Start from Hei-ma-hou — Chinese cultivation — The Mongol not a farmer — The grass-lands of Inner Mongolia — The first Mongol village — Construction of a yurt — Bird life — The telegraph line\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II\u003cbr\u003eSPEED MARVELS OF THE GOBI DESERT\u003cbr\u003eWells in the desert — Panj-kiang — A lama monastery — A great herd of antelope — A wild chase — Long range shooting — Amazing speed — An exhibition of high-class running — Difficulties in traveling — Description of the northern Mongols — Love of sport — Ude — Bustards — Great monastery at Turin — The rolling plains of Outer Mongolia — Urga during the World War\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III\u003cbr\u003eA CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS\u003cbr\u003eReturn trip — The “agony box” — The first accident — My Czech and Cossack passengers — The “agony box” breaks a wheel — A dry camp — More motor trouble — Meeting with Langdon Warner — Our game of hide-and-seek in the Orient — An accident near Panj-kiang — We use mutton fat for oil — Arrival at Hei-ma-hou — A wet ride to Kalgan — Trouble at the gate\u003cbr\u003e. . .\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVII\u003cbr\u003eWAPITI, ROEBUCK AND GORAL\u003cbr\u003eOur camp in a new village — Game at our door — Concentration of animal life — Chinese roebuck — A splendid hunt — Goral — Difficult climbing — “Hide and seek” with a goral — The second wapiti — A happy ending to a cold day\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVIII\u003cbr\u003eWILD PIGS — ANIMAL AND HUMAN\u003cbr\u003eShansi Province famous for wild boar — Flesh delicious — When to hunt — Where to go — Inns and coal gas — Kao-chia-chuang — A long shot — Our camp at Tziloa — Native hunters — A young pig — A hard chase — Pheasants — Another pig — Smith runs down a big sow — Chinese steal our game — A wounded boar\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIX\u003cbr\u003eTHE HUNTING PARK OF THE EASTERN TOMBS\u003cbr\u003eA visit to Duke Tsai Tse — A “personality” — The Tung Ling — The road to the tombs — A country inn — The front view of the Tung Ling — The tombs of the Empress Dowager and Ch’ien Lung — The “hinterland” — An area of desolation — Our camp in the forest — Reeves’s pheasant — The most beautiful Chinese deer — “Blood horns” as medicine — Goral — Animals and birds of the Tung Ling — A new method of catching trout — A forest fire — Native stupidity — Wanton destruction — China’s great opportunity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003eROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS, ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF MAMMALS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, AND LEADER OF THE MUSEUM’S SECOND ASIATIC EXPEDITION.","brand":"VolumesOfValue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173090967792,"sku":"2940014717014","price":1.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014717014_p0.jpg?v=1763614604","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014717014","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}