An Explorer Comes Home

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Roy Chapman Andrews. An Explorer Comes Home

An Explorer Comes Home

Table of Contents

Foreword

I

Discovery

II

Local History

III

Lord Jitters

IV

A Forest Interlude

V

Two Anglers Are Born

VI

The Lord and the Queen

VII

Rebirth

VIII

Spring Comes to Pondwood

IX

The Great Pig Derby

X

Prisoners in Pondwood

XI

The Hunter's Moon

XII

Pondwood Queen

XIII

Glamor Girl with Wings

XIV

Making Movies

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Roy Chapman Andrews

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Billie and I were entranced. From utter depression we leaped in one moment to the heights of excitement. It was simply too good to be true. Behind the house a wood road drifted down a gentle slope through a gorgeous mixed forest, as untouched as the wilderness of Canada. White, gray, black, and golden birches, maples, oak, beech, ash, hemlock, and pine. The place was alive with birds. Five wood thrushes were singing at one moment.

Back on the porch I whispered to Billie, "The place is heavenly. We've got to buy it. Of course the house is impossible but we'll pull it down and build a new one. What do you think?"

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