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Descending the Dragon My Journey down the Coast of Vietnam

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ISBN-10: 1426203047

ISBN-13: 9781426203046

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jon Bowermaster, Rob Howard

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Sometimes the longest journey begins with great patience. When Jon Bowermaster proposed an 800-mile kayak expedition along Vietnam’s northern coastline, the country’s government initially responded, "That will be quite impossible." Negotiation saved the day, and Jon Bowermaster and his team of fiveincluding a Vietnamese-American woman who had fled Saigon as a child on the final day of war in 1975completed an unprecedented voyage, seeing Vietnam and its people in a brand new light. One-third of Vietnam’s 80 million citizens live on or near the coastline, and Bowermaster met thousands of themrich and poor, fishermen and entrepreneurs, almost all beach dwellers who live and depend on the sea.…    
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Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Publication date: 8/26/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 8.35" wide x 10.00" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

<p class="biography" <b Jon Bowermaster</b is a noted oceans expert, award-winning journalist, author, filmmaker, adventurer and six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council.</p