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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Sport and science on the Sino-Mongolian frontier
Arthur de Carle Sowerby
229 pages~4 hr 34 min read43 chapters$4.99
Along the border of China and Mongolia, Arthur de Carle Sowerby hunts, collects, and studies the wildlife of the Ordos, the forests of the Fen Ho basin, and beyond. Part sporting narrative, part naturalist's field record, it maps a wild frontier through T'ai-yuan and Kuei-hua-ch'eng. Travel a corner of Asia few Westerners ever reached.
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Inside this book
43 chapters
- 1SPORT AND SCIENCE ON THE SINO-MONGOLIAN FRONTIER
- 2Introduction
- 3NOTE
- 4TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 5LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6CHAPTER I THE ORDOS BORDER
- 7CHAPTER II THE FORESTS AND LAKES OF THE FÊN HO BASIN
- 8CHAPTER III SPORT ROUND T’AI-YÜAN FU
- 9CHAPTER IV TRIP TO HSI-WAN-TZŬ
- 10CHAPTER V JOURNEY TO K’UEI-HUA-CH’ÊNG: THE T’AI HAI
- 11CHAPTER VI AFTER ARGALI AND WAPITI
- 12Wapiti
- 13CHAPTER VII THE MONGOLIAN PLATEAU
- 14CHAPTER VIII BIOLOGICAL WORK
- 15CHAPTER IX THE FLORA OF THE SINO-MONGOLIAN FRONTIER
- 16i. TREES
- 17(a) Gymnosperms
- 18(b) Angiosperms
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