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100 1 $aKeay, John.
245 10 $aMad about the Mekong :$bexploration and empire in South-East Asia /$cJohn Keay.
260 $aLondon :$bHarper Perennial,$c2006.
300 $axxv, 294 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (chiefly color), maps ;$c20 cm
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500 $aOriginally published: London: HarperCollins, 2005.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aApocalypse then -- Shuttle to Angkor -- To the falls -- Unbuttoned in bassac -- Separate ways -- River rivals -- Hell-bent for China -- Heart of darkness -- Into the light -- Death in Yunnan.
520 0 $aWildest of the world's great rivers, until ten years ago the Mekong boasted not a single bridge, let alone a city. From Tibet to Vietnam it flows for nearly 3,000 miles through a succession of rapids and cataracts buried in inaccessible gorges and impenetrable forest. Millions depend on its waters, yet of its course or its potential almost nothing was known until one of history's most ambitious expeditions disappeared into the forests of Laos in 1866. Mad About the Mekong is the little-known story of this expedition, of its triumphs and disasters in the most inhospitable terrain, of how it led to the creation of an empire, and of why the Mekong still retains its reputation as the river at the 'Heart of Darkness'." "The Mekong Exploration Commission, led by the enigmatic 'Commandant' Doudart de Lagree and the obsessive Francis Garnier, dwarfed all contemporary expeditions including those searching for the source of the Nile. The explorers were gone for over two years and travelled a greater distance than the length of Africa, through present-day Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma and China. Twenty-strong when they left Saigon, only thirteen survivors finally emerged on the Yangtse. Lagree himself was among those who perished." "John Keay reveals how the expedition's discoveries inspired the carve-up of the region, first between the French and the British and then between communism and capitalism. Following in the wake of Lagree and his companions, he delves into the river's record as a refuge for exotic tribes and endangered species, as well as a redoubt for the savagery, lawlessness, obscure wars and clandestine operations that have marked its history.
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651 0 $aMekong River Valley$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aMekong River Valley$xDiscovery and exploration.
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