About the book: 2019 / The first discoveries of fossil remains of velociraptor, oviraptor, protoceratops and psittacosaurus, the discovery of the first dinosaur eggs and ancient mammals known to science - we owe all this the tireless energy of the famous American naturalist, traveler, adventurer and author of many fascinating books, Roy Chapman Andrews (1884–1960), often called the “Indiana Jones” of paleontology. The son of a small-town merchant, Andrews began his career as a floor cleaner and assistant taxidermist at the American Museum of Natural History and ended it as director of the museum, and in the 1920s. organized a number of bold and amazingly large-scale expeditions to China and Mongolia. The publication includes two of his books, separated by a thirty-year gap - “In the Footsteps of Primitive Man” and “Wonderful Beasts: About Animals of the Distant Past».