Danger in the Desert: True Adventures of a Dinosaur Hunter (Sterling Point Books Series)

Danger in the Desert: True Adventures of a Dinosaur Hunter (Sterling Point Books Series)

by Roger Cohen
Danger in the Desert: True Adventures of a Dinosaur Hunter (Sterling Point Books Series)

Danger in the Desert: True Adventures of a Dinosaur Hunter (Sterling Point Books Series)

by Roger Cohen

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Overview

In the movies, there’s Indiana Jones; but in the real world, there was Roy Chapman Andrews. Some say this fearless, larger-than-life adventurer—who, like Indiana, had a wide-brimmed hat, leather jacket, and six-shooter—may have been the inspiration for the big-screen hero.
From 1910 to 1930, Andrews led countless expeditions for the American Museum of Natural History, boldly facing such dangers as killer pythons, man-eating wild dogs, marauding bandits, blinding sandstorms, and imprisonment by corrupt officials. Even as China and Mongolia exploded in revolutionary chaos, he and his team of paleontologists intrepidly journeyed by car, camel, and horse through the uncharted Gobi desert where he discovered the largest deposits of dinosaur fossils ever seen. His group amazed the world with their discoveries—and scientists are still following in Andrews’s footsteps, digging in the rich sites he found.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781402757068
Publisher: Sterling
Publication date: 08/05/2008
Series: Sterling Point Books Series
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 12 - 17 Years

About the Author

About The Author

ROGER COHEN is a columnist for The New York Times, where he has worked since 1990, primarily as Paris correspondent, bureau chief in the Balkans and Berlin, and foreign editor. Prior to that he was a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. His work has won wide recognition, including awards from the Overseas Press Club, and he has taught at Princeton and Harvard universities. Raised in South Africa and England, a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, he is a naturalized American.

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