title: On the Trail of Ancient Man: A Narrative of the Field Work of the Central Asiatic Expeditions
author: Roy Chapman Andrews
description: Pp. xxiv, 375; 58 black-and-white photo-plates by J. B. Shackelford, 5 line-drawings and text maps, 1 double page folding map at rear . Publisher's original green coarse-weave cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, Gilt-decorated cloth, lg 8vo. Presents a narrative of the field work of the Central Asiatic Expeditions of 1922, 1923 and 1925 where dinosaur eggs were found as well as the bones of Baluchitherium, the largest mammal to ever live. The volume also details hunting trips to the Altai Mountains of Mongolia in search of Big Sheep. This is the scarce first edition in an original dust jacket. No ownership marks.
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  # KEEPERS of the TREASURE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### EDGAR WALLACE
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  A Yarn From the
  
  
    
  Ends of Empire
  
  
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  YEARS and years ago, _cala cala_ as the saying is, when the
  
  
  Portuguese were in the land, came many canoes along the great river. In
  
  
  those days there was a river that ran through the N'gombi country; it
  
  
  is now an overgrown depression in the forest. Whence came this
  
  
  expedition nobody knew. The men camped on the edge of the Ochori
  
  
  country and made a fortification with the help of forced labor. Then
  
  
  came other men in pursuit, and there was a great battle of swords and
  
  
  spears, and in the end the attackers succeeded. Every defender was put
  
  
  to the sword, but when the victorious captain came to look for the ten
  
  
  great boxes which the fugitives had brought with them they were not to
  
  
  be found. They had been buried by