1. He had the Hat
2. He had death defying adventures.
"In the (first) fifteen years of (field work) I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death. Two were from drowning in typhoons, one was when our boat was charged by a wounded whale; once my wife and I were nearly eaten by wild dogs, once we were in great danger from fanatical lama priests; two were close calls when I fell over cliffs, once I was nearly caught by a huge python, and twice I might have been killed by bandits."
—Roy Chapman Andrews
On the Trail of Ancient Man
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.
3. He disliked snakes.
"...personally I dislike reptiles intensely. I don't know why, but I just do. My dislike isn't fear. It is an instinctive loathing. I have had to collect hundreds of reptiles during my explorations and I can handle them, if I have to, without going into hysterics or anything of that sort. I can inject them or take out their insides or skin them but I can think of about a million things that I would rather do."
-Andrews, Roy C. This Business of Exploring. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. Print.
4. He had inventive fans.
Fan letter to Roy Chapman Andrews, March 1931.
5. His party was the first in the world to discover dinosaur eggs.
He even had a dinosaur named after him: Andrewsarchus mongoliensis
"Always there has been an adventure just around the corner--and the world is still full of corners."
― Roy Chapman Andrews
