Camps and Trails in China / A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China

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The narrative recounts an extended scientific expedition through remote regions of China, blending travel writing, natural history, and adventure. The team describes camp life, specimen collecting and field methods, close encounters with wildlife including tiger hunts and cave-dwelling bats, and practical challenges of transport and outfitting. Interludes record interactions with local peoples, missionary settlements, political unrest, and cultural practices such as women's roles and ceremonies. Photographic records and journals supplement the field observations, while technical scientific results are left to formal reports; emphasis remains on the explorers' experiences and the landscapes, animals, and human communities encountered.

CAMPS AND TRAILS
IN CHINA

A NARRATIVE OF EXPLORATION, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT
IN LITTLE-KNOWN CHINA

ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS, M.A.

ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF MAMMALS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND
LEADER OF THE MUSEUM'S ASIATIC ZOÖLOGICAL EXPEDITION OF 1916-1917;
FELLOW NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES; CORRESPONDING MEMBER
ZOÖLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON; MEMBER OF THE BIOLOGICAL
SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON; AUTHOR "WHALEHUNTING
WITH GUN AND CAMERA"

AND

YVETTE BORUP ANDREWS

PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE ASIATIC ZOÖLOGICAL EXPEDITION

ILLUSTRATED

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK LONDON
1918

Printed in the United States of America

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO

PRESIDENT HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN

AS AN EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE
AND ADMIRATION

"Let us probe the silent places, let us seek what luck betide us;

Let us journey to a lonely land I know.

There's a whisper on the night-wind, there's a star agleam to guide us,

And the Wild is calling, calling ... let us go."

—Service.