River's Tale A Year on the Mekong

Name: River's Tale A Year on the Mekong
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ISBN: 9780375705595

ISBN-10: 0375705597

ISBN-13: 9780375705595

Edition: N/A

Authors: Edward Gargan

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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.…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/7/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.03" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



A Note on Names and Places


Map


Introduction



The Dzachu



Shangri-la



Brigands, Headhunters and Banana Pancakes



The Golden Triangle



Boats, Buddha and a Million Elephants



Baguettes to Marx



Dolphins, Smiles and Murder



Memory, the Hill of the Poison Tree, and Hope



Nine Dragons



"Bien Dong, Bien Dong ..."


Sources


Acknowledgments


Index