The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong by Gargan, Edward

The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375705595)

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The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong by Gargan, Edward

The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong

$18.00
The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong by Gargan, Edward

The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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Along the Mekong, from northern Tibet to Lijiang, from Luang Prabang to Phnom Penh to Can Lo, I moved from one world to another, among cultural islands often ignorant of each other's presence. Yet each island, as if built on shifting sands and eroded and reshaped by a universal sea, was re-forming itself, or was being remolded, was expanding its horizons or sinking under the rising waters of a cultural global warming. It was a journey between worlds, worlds fragiley conjoined by a river both ominous and luminescent, muscular and bosomy, harsh and sensuous.

From windswept plateaus to the South China Sea, the Mekong flows for three thousand miles, snaking its way through Southeast Asia. Long fascinated with this part of the world, former New York Times correspondent Edward Gargan embarked on an ambitious exploration of the Mekong and those living within its watershed. The River's Tale is a rare and profound book that delivers more than a correspondent's account of a place. It is a seminal examination of the Mekong and its people, a testament to the their struggles, their defeats and their victories.

Author: Edward Gargan
ISBN-10: 0375705597
ISBN-13: 9780375705595
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 01/07/2003
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.28h x 6.58w x 0.72d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 01/05/2003 pg. 16
Kliatt 03/01/2003 pg. 52
By Edward Gargan
By Edward Gargan
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Edward A. Gargan worked as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief for the New York Times in West Africa, China, India, and Hong Kong, was a magazine writer for the Los Angeles Times, and now covers Asia for Newsday. He was an Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and is the author of China's Fate. He is based in Beijing and has a home on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

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