An edition of The Last Barbarians (1997)

The last Barbarians

the discovery of the source of the Mekong in Tibet

1st ed.

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Cover of: The last Barbarians by Michel Peissel, Michel Peissel
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An edition of The Last Barbarians (1997)

The last Barbarians

the discovery of the source of the Mekong in Tibet

1st ed.

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In 1994, seizing the rarest of opportunities to journey deep into occupied Tibet, Michel Peissel accomplished what scores of Western explorers had tried and failed to do for more than a hundred years: He found the source of the Mekong River in the ice-strewn fields on the "roof of the world.".

This immensely readable account tells how a small group of modern adventurers made history not once, but twice, in the course of a single year: by accurately charting the origins of one of Asia's most majestic and storied waterways and by finding a living fossil, the Riwoche horse, a species unknown to contemporary zoology that may prove to be a missing link in equine evolution.

The book's stage is forbidden Tibet - with its tragic politics, its natural wonder, and its fiercely independent nomadic tribes, who are known to the Chinese as "the last barbarians."

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H. Holt
Language
English
Pages
253

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Subjects

Discovery and exploration, Fossil Horses, Horses, Fossil, Mekong river delta (vietnam and cambodia), Mountaineering, Tibet autonomous region (china), description and travel

Places

China, Mekong River, Tibet, Tibet (China)

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The Last Barbarians: the Discovery of the Source of the Mekong in Tibet
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The last Barbarians: the discovery of the source of the Mekong in Tibet
1997, H. Holt
in English - 1st ed.
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Edition Notes

Maps of Greater Tibet and Source of the Mekong on endpapers.
Includes index.

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New York
Other Titles
Discovery of the source of the Mekong in Tibet

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Dewey Decimal Class
915.1/50459
Library of Congress
DS786 .P376 1997, DS786.P376 1997

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Pagination
253 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
253

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OL680955M
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ISBN 10
0805045341
LCCN
97027534
OCLC/WorldCat
37239040
Library Thing
996520
Goodreads
886223

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