This Business of Exploring
From the preface of This Business of Exploring:
I 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.
There was a selfish motive, too, for it may help to answer the questions which have come to me by the thousand:
�How can I be an explorer?�
�What remains to be done in exploration?�
After 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.
As 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.
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I 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.
There was a selfish motive, too, for it may help to answer the questions which have come to me by the thousand:
�How can I be an explorer?�
�What remains to be done in exploration?�
After 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.
As 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.
This Business of Exploring
From the preface of This Business of Exploring:
I 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.
There was a selfish motive, too, for it may help to answer the questions which have come to me by the thousand:
�How can I be an explorer?�
�What remains to be done in exploration?�
After 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.
As 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.
I 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.
There was a selfish motive, too, for it may help to answer the questions which have come to me by the thousand:
�How can I be an explorer?�
�What remains to be done in exploration?�
After 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.
As 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.
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| BN ID: | 2940149194384 |
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| Publisher: | Sportsman's Vintage Press |
| Publication date: | 03/21/2014 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 344 |
| File size: | 3 MB |
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