Highlights in the History of Exploration and Trade in China

This book traces significant points in the history of Western exploration in and trade with China. It also touches on many other highlights, including explorations by the Russian Nikolay Przevalsky, who traveled deep into China and today is largely remembered for the horse he discovered and identified there; the travels of 19th-century women explorers in China; American Roy Chapman Andrews, discovery of the first fossilized dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert; and the competition between two American explorers to be the first to capture a live giant panda.