The New Conquest of Central Asia: a Narrative of the Explorations of the Central Asiatic Expeditions in Mongolia and China, 1921–1930

Abstract

THE expedition of the American Museum of Natural History to Central Asia left Peking for its first journey in Mongolia on April 17, 1922. Its object, as formulated by Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews in his narrative of the expedition, of which he was the leader from first to last, was “the study of the geological history of Central Asia to find whether it had been the nursery of many of the dominant forms of animals, including the human race, and to reconstruct its past climate, vegetation, and general geographic conditions, particularly in relation to the evolution of man”.

The New Conquest of Central Asia: a Narrative of the Explorations of the Central Asiatic Expeditions in Mongolia and China, 1921–1930.

By Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews. With Chapters by Dr. Walter Granger, Clifford H. Pope, Nels C. Nelsonand Summary Statements by G. M. Allen, R. C. Andrews, C. P. Berkey, R. W. Chaney, A. W. Grabau, W. Granger, F. K. Morris, N. C. Nelson, J. T. Nichols, H. F. Osborn, C. H. Pope, C. A. Reeds and L. E. Spock. (Central Asiatic Expeditions: Natural History of Central Asia, Vol. 1). Pp. 1 + 678 + 128 plates. (New York: American Museum of Natural HistoryLondon: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1932.) 63s. net.