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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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The Last Barbarians: the Discovery of the Source of the Mekong in Tibet
October 29, 1998, Souvenir Press Ltd
Ring-bound
0285634739 9780285634732
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The last Barbarians: the discovery of the source of the Mekong in Tibet
1997, H. Holt
in English
- 1st ed.
0805045341 9780805045345
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Maps of Greater Tibet and Source of the Mekong on endpapers.
Includes index.
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