{"product_id":"2940149194384","title":"This Business of Exploring","description":"From the preface of This Business of Exploring:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI always like to shift the responsibility for a book of mine to some one else, or at least to divide it. The chief responsibility for this volume is my wife’s, for it was her suggestion that I write an informal account of my conception of modern exploration–the exploration of today and tomorrow–as I have told it to her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere was a selfish motive, too, for it may help to answer the questions which have come to me by the thousand:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“How can I be an explorer?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What remains to be done in exploration?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter telling in the first chapter what this business of exploration has become, I have amplified some of the details by my own experiences in the field and out of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a concrete example of modern scientific exploration I have given an account of the 1928-1930 Central Asiatic Expeditions in the Gobi Desert which has not been published in popular book form. These Expeditions were conducted with a background of war, banditry and politics in China, which made them interesting but exceedingly difficult.","brand":"Sportsman's Vintage Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079473545456,"sku":"2940149194384","price":9.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149194384_p0.jpg?v=1763714033","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149194384","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}