[Depicted in Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs - the tenth novel in the series published by Bantam Books, and the second written by Max McCoy- released in 1996]
Following a ride on a Nazi submarine, Jones is persuaded by an attractive missionary to search for her missing father in Mongolia, where it’s noted that a Professor Angus Starbuck has discovered a fresh dinosaur bone in the Gobi Desert.
From there, Indy crosses China through treacherous mountains to Outer Mongolia where he encounters the region’s fiercest warlords.
Later on, Indy duels with wild dogs and bloodthirsty killers who are in a desperate effort to save the last living triceratops.
It should be noted, that this is the first adventure in which Indy encounters a soon-to-be rival in Lao Che, a Chinese gangster who has essentially enslaved Indy’s friend, Wu Han, by holding captive the remains of his family. Indiana is able to retrieve the ashes and free Wu Han, while managing to escape from Lao Che’s assassins, including his son Kao Kan, onboard a train out of Shanghai.
Locations in this adventure are:
Mongolia - a landlocked country in East Asia, sandwiched between Russia to the North and China to the South, it is the second largest landlocked country in the world behind Kazakhstan. The area was ruled by various nomadic empires throughout history, including the Xiongnu, the Xianbei, the Rouran, and the Turkic Khaganate, leading up to the year 1206 when Genghis Khan founded the Mongol Empire which became the largest land empire in history. After the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911, Mongolia declared independence from China, of which they actually achieved in 1921.
Gobi Desert - a large desert or brushland region in Asia which covers parts of Northern China and Southern Mongolia, which is notable in history as part of the Great Mongol Empire and as the location of several cities along the historical trade route known as the Silk Road.
Outer Mongolia - a territory of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty (1691-1911), with an area that was roughly equivalent to the modern state of Mongolia, which today is often referred to as “Northern Mongolia” in China.
Shanghai - China’s biggest city and global financial hub, described as a “showpiece” of the booming economy of the world’s most populous country.
Creatures in this adventure are -
Triceratops - a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur and one of the most recognized in modern culture, first appearing during the late Maastrichtian stage of the late Cretaceous period, about 68 million years ago in what is now North America. It’s name is derived from Ancient Greek text that translates to “three-horned face,” while the triceratops that was one of the largest (up to 9 meters long and 12 tonnes in weight) became extinct in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago.
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