Description
Roy Andrews (1884-1960) was an explorer, and long-time curator and director of the American Museum of Natural History. His Asiatic Zoological Expedition of 1916-17 was written up in his "Camps and Trails in China". The pagoda on the cover is found at Ta-Li, a town in the Yunnan province that was also visited by Marco Polo in the Thirteenth century Incidentally, it is said that the movie character Indiana Jones was modelled on Andrews.
Source
Camps and trails in China; a narrative of exploration, adventure, and sport in little-known China, by Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews (New York, London, D. Appleton and company, 1918).