Sport and Science on the Sino-Mongolian Frontier
by Arthur de Carle Sowerby
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About this eBook
- Author
- Sowerby, Arthur de Carle, 1885-1954
- Title
- Sport and science on the Sino-Mongolian frontier
- Original Publication
- London: A. Melrose, ltd., 1918.
- Credits
- Richard Tonsing, Peter Becker, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia
- Subject
- Natural history -- Mongolia
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 78716
- Release Date
- May 20, 2026
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.SPORT AND SCIENCE ON THE SINO-MONGOLIAN FRONTIER
- 2.Introduction — NOTE
- 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.CHAPTER I THE ORDOS BORDER
- 6.CHAPTER II THE FORESTS AND LAKES OF THE FÊN HO BASIN
- 7.CHAPTER III SPORT ROUND T’AI-YÜAN FU
- 8.CHAPTER IV TRIP TO HSI-WAN-TZŬ
- 9.CHAPTER V JOURNEY TO K’UEI-HUA-CH’ÊNG: THE T’AI HAI
- 10.CHAPTER VI AFTER ARGALI AND WAPITI — Wapiti
- 11.CHAPTER VII THE MONGOLIAN PLATEAU
- 12.CHAPTER VIII BIOLOGICAL WORK
- 13.CHAPTER IX THE FLORA OF THE SINO-MONGOLIAN FRONTIER — i. TREES — ( a ) Gymnosperms — ( b ) Angiosperms — ii. FRUITS — iii. FLOWERS — iv. CRYPTOGAMS
- 14.CHAPTER X GEOLOGICAL NOTES — PART I The Geology of the Country traversed by the Chen-T’ai Railway: Western Chihli and Eastern Shansi — PART 2 The Geology of the Country traversed by Anderson and the Author in 1908: Northern Shensi, the Ordos and Western Shansi — PART 3 The Geology of the Upper Fên Ho Basin, Western Shansi — PART 4 The Geology of the Country traversed by the Peking-kalgan Railway — PART 5 The Geology of the Ch’ing Ho and Hsi-wan-tzŭ District, Northern Chihli — PART 6 The Geology of the Country traversed by the Chang-sui Extension Line, North-western Chihli and North-eastern Shansi — PART 7 The Geology of the Country from Yang-kao to K’uei-hua-ch’êng, North Shansi — PART 8 The Sedimentary Rocks North-west of Pi-ch’ien-ch’i, North-western Shansi — PART 9 The Geology of the Mongolian Plateau, Inner Mongolia
- 15.APPENDIX — ITINERARIES — ITINERARY No. 1. — ITINERARY No. 2. — ITINERARY No. 3. — ITINERARY No. 4. — ITINERARY No. 5. — ITINERARY No. 6. — ITINERARY No. 7. — ITINERARY No. 8. — SOUTHERN ROUTE. — NORTHERN ROUTE.
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