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Across Mongolian Plains / A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest'

Chapter 4: ILLUSTRATIONS
By Roy Chapman Andrews
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The narrative recounts a year of field exploration across the Mongolian plains and northern China, combining travelogue, natural history observation, and practical expedition detail. It follows journeys by caravan and motor, daily camp life, and the methods and results of zoological collecting, accompanied by descriptive photography. Vivid landscape sketches alternate with encounters with nomadic communities and logistical and diplomatic challenges, while recurring concerns about wildlife conservation, the changing human use of the land, and the urgency of scientific documentation ground the account.

ILLUSTRATIONS

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A Nomad of the Mongolian Plains Frontispiece
Roy Chapman Andrews on "Kublai Khan" 8
Yvette Borup Andrews, Photographer of the Expedition 9
At the End of the Long Trail from Outer Mongolia 20
Women of Southern Mongolia 21
The Middle Ages and the Twentieth Century 34
A Mongolian Antelope Killed from Our Motor Car 35
Watering Camels at a Well in the Gobi Desert 35
The Water Carrier for a Caravan 46
A Thirty-five Pound Bustard 47
Young Mongolia 47
Mongol Horsemen on the Streets of Urga 60
The Prison at Urga 61
A Criminal in a Coffin with Hands Manacled 61
The Great Temple at Urga 72
A Prayer Wheel and a Mongol Lama" 72
Lamas Calling the Gods at a Temple in Urga 73
Mongol Praying at a Shrine in Urga 73
Mongol Women Beside a Yurt 82
The Headdress of a Mongol Married Woman 82
The Framework of a Yurt 83
Mongol Women and a Lama" 83
The Traffic Policeman on Urga's "Broadway" 98
A Mongol Lama 98
The Grasslands of Outer Mongolia 99
Mongol Herdsmen Carrying Lassos 116
A Lone Camp on the Desert 117
Tibetan Yaks 184
Our Caravan Crossing the Terelche River 135
Our Base Camp at the Edge of the Forest 148
The Mongol Village of the Terelche Valley 149
Wrestlers at Terelche Valley Field Meet 164
Women Spectators at the Field Meet 165
Cave Dwellings in North Shansi Province 184
An Asiatic Wapiti 185
Harry R. Caldwell and a Mongolian Bighorn 185
Where the Bighorn Sheep Are Found 216
A Mongolian Roebuck 217
The Head of the Record Ram 224
Map of Mongolia and China, Showing Route of Second
    Asiatic Expedition in Broken Lines		 225