ONCE AGAIN, FAMOUS PALEONTOLOGIST NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH!

Was he a real-life model for the fictional daredevil "Indiana Jones"?

Roy Chapman Andrews looked for adventure and found it while leading scientific expeditions for the American Museum of Natural History. Read the story of the man who wore a wide-brimmed hat, carried a pistol, and amazed the world with his discoveries of dinosaur bones and his constant confrontations with danger and death.

"I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death. Two were from drowning in typhoons, one was when our boat was charged by a wounded whale, once my wife and I were nearly eaten by wild dogs, once we were in great danger from fanatical lama priests, two were close calls when I fell over cliffs, once I was nearly caught by a huge python, and twice I might have been killed by bandits." —Roy Chapman Andrews

From the back of the book