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...LAND OF THE CAMEL (200 pp.)-Schuyler Cammann-Ronald Press...
Currently, readers have their choice of two. One is an exuberant feature story of the 1949 Tibetan holiday of Lowell Thomas and Lowell Jr.; the other is a sharp-eyed account of a junket through Inner Mongolia, taken in 1945 by Orientalist Schuyler Cammann of the University of Pennsylvania...
...Real America? Schuyler Cammann travels in the tradition of the scholar-adventurer, and his book, The Land of the Camel, cleaves to the best in its tradition (truthfulness, a sense of moral involvement, good humor) while shunning the worst (bad writing, political or sectarian tirade, excessive footnotarianism...
Tested in this way, by Drs. W. F. Libby and J. R. Arnold of the University of Chicago, one sample of charcoal from a buried campsite in Schuyler County proved to be about 5,400 years old. Most previous estimates had given the Indians only 2,000 years in New York State, but Dr. Ritchie's finding seemed to indicate that rather primitive redmen lived there in 3450 B.C., when the neolithic inhabitants, of northern Europe were not much more advanced...
...records of events of every sort. He has also obtained some older treasures. Dr. Haven Emerson was able to produce 30 letters from Ancestor Ralph Waldo Emerson. Chemist William Jay Schieffelin reached into a closet and pulled out the seven letters that John Jay wrote to Major General Philip Schuyler after the fall of Fort Ticonderoga...