SOWERBY, Arthur de Carle, & Robert Sterling Clark.

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Through Shên-Kan: The Account of the Clark Expedition in North China, 1908-9. First edition this account of an expedition to Shanxi and Gansu bankrolled by Robert Sterling Clark, the heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. Sowerby & Clark endeavour to "carry the imagination of the general reader - by pen, brush, and film - into the very heart of the Celestial Empire" (introduction).A leading naturalist of his day, Arthur de Carle Sowerby (1885-1954) was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi, to a Baptist missionary. In the early 20th century, he began collecting specimens for the Taiyuan museum of natural history and subsequently joined the zoological Bedford expedition in 1906. This lively account is enhanced by many observations on geography, zoology, ornithology, astronomy, geology, meteorology, and culture.

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