American Museum of Natural History: 125 Years of Expedition and DiscoveryThe larger-than-life stories in this fascinating book recount the first 125 years of the American Museum of Natural History, in New York, which derives its fame and collections from a spectacular series of expeditions "to the ends of the earth". More than 240 photos, 90 in color, capture all the excitement, danger, and difficulty of exploration and discovery. 10 maps. |
Contents
In the House of the Raven | 30 |
Men of the Dragon Bones | 52 |
For Whom East and West Shall Have Vanished | 72 |
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Africa American Museum Andrews anthropologist Archbold Arctic artifacts Asiatic Expedition Aztec Barnum Brown began birds of paradise bones Borgoras camp Carl Akeley Carl Lumholtz cave Central Asiatic Chaco Canyon Chapin Cherrie cliff coast collections Congo creatures culture curator dance dinosaurs discovered discovery Earl Morris early Ellsworth Eskimos evolution excavated explorer extinct feet field forest fossils Franz Boas George Gobi Greenland Guinea habitats hand-colored lantern slide Henry Fairfield Osborn human hundred Hunt Ibid Indians Island James Chapin Jesup Jochelson Kwakiutl later living Lumholtz mammals Margaret Mead Mayr ment meteorite Mexico miles million years ago Mongolia Mount mountain Museum of Natural native Natural History North Pole nosaurs Opposite Pacific paleontologist Peary Peary's Photograph polar River Rollo Beck Roosevelt Roy Chapman Andrews ruins scientific scientists seum South America species specimens Stefansson tepui thousand tion traveled tribe trip Turnbull village Walter Granger Wissler wrote York