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IRANIAN 

 ADVENTURE 



The First Street Expedition 



by William S. and Janice K. Street 

 with Richard Sawyer 



$14.95 



10% discount for Field Museum members 



softcover 



320 pages, with color plates 



and black-and-white illustrations 



PUBLISHED BY FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



Many couples approaching sixty and planning retirement might 

 buy a camper and think about a little serious fishing. Bill and Jan 

 Street bought two Travelalls, hired Doug Lay, a young mammalo- 

 gist, and took off to scour the mountains, deserts, and river valleys 

 of Iran for wildlife specimens to enrich Field Museum's collec- 

 tions. They started by hunting red sheep two miles high in the 

 Elburz Mountains and went on from there. During the next six 

 months, they traveled nearly 15,000 miles and collected nearly 

 3,500 mammals, from bears to bats. They also collected hundreds 

 of birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, complete with thousands 

 of fleas, ticks, and mites — all equally valuable for study. Thanks to 

 their efforts, Field Museum now houses one of the world's finest 

 collections of Iranian fauna. 



But as history moved on, the Streets found that they had also 

 captured a last view of an ancient culture on the brink of change. 

 Their notes and photographs illuminate the vast political eruption 

 that followed. This, and the lengthening roll of research papers 

 based on their collections, gives lasting value to the Iranian adven- 

 tures of three Americans who learned the scientific expedition 

 business by doing it. 



