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The last Barbarians : the discovery of the source of the Mekong in Tibet
- Title
- The last Barbarians : the discovery of the source of the Mekong in Tibet / Michel Peissel.
- Author
- Peissel, Michel, 1937-2011.
- Publication
- New York : H. Holt, 1997.
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| Text | Request in advance | DS786 .P376 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- 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."
- Alternative Title
- Discovery of the source of the Mekong in Tibet
- Subject
- Note
- Maps of Greater Tibet and Source of the Mekong on endpapers.
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 0805045341 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 97027534
- OCLC
- ocm37239040
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries