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I wanted to go everywhere. I would have started on a day's notice for the North Pole or the South, to the jungle or the desert. It made not the slightest difference to me.

Roy Chapman Andrews

I was born to be an explorer. There never was any decision to make. I coudn't be anything else and be happy, the desire to see new places, to discover new facts- the curiosity of life always has been a resistless driving force to me.

Roy Chapman Andrews

Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly succession the monarchs of the past and the ancient river streams and savannahs wherein they flourished. The rocks usually hide their story in the most difficult and inaccessible places.

Roy Chapman Andrews

Roy Chapman Andrews

Roy Chapman Andrews

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Born: January 26, 1884

Died: March 11, 1960 (aged 76)

Bio: Roy Chapman Andrews was an American explorer, adventurer and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History.

Known for:

Under A Lucky Star - A Lifetime Of Adventure (1943)
Across Mongolian plains (1921)
This business of exploring (1935)
Beyond adventure (1954)

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