Contents: Foreword/Henry Fairfield Osborn. Preface. 1. Preparations. 2. Some preliminary digressions. 3. Hunting the "Golden Fleece". 4. Under way. 5. In the city of the living God. 6. Tenting in Lama land. 7. A kentucky Derby in the Gobi desert. 7. Finding the Baluchitherium. 9. The discovery of the flaming cliffs. 10. Giant beasts of three million years ago/Henry Fairfield Osborn. 11. New work and discoveries. 12. Where the Dinosaur hid its eggs. 13. Professor Osborn visits the expedition. 14. Bigger and better eggs. 15. The dune dwellers of Mongolia. 16. A tragedy of the Gobi desert. 17. On the trail of ancient man. 18. The world's oldest mammals. 19. Snakes and fossils. The Central Asiatic expedition. Fund contributors. Scientific papers of the expedition. Index.

From the Preface: "The present book is a preliminary narrative of the field work of the Central Asiatic Expeditions. So Many requests for a collected account of the activities of the expeditions during the last four years have come to us that we felt it was due the public to give the story of our experience in Mongolia up to the present time."

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