Mad About the Mekong : Exploration and Empire in South East Asia

Name: Mad About the Mekong : Exploration and Empire in South East Asia
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers

HarperCollins Publishers

Mad About the Mekong\nby John Keay\nPaperback\nUnknown\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: John Keay\nTitle: Mad About the Mekong\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: Unknown\nTopic: Asian history\nPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\nISBN-13: 9780007111152\nISBN-10: 0007111150\nRRP: \u00A314.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe story of both a dramatic journey retracing the historic voyage of France's greatest 19th-century explorer up the mysterious Mekong river, and a portrait of the river and its peoples today.Any notion of sailing up the Mekong in homage to Francis Garnier has been unthinkable until now. From its delta in Vietnam up through Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma and on into China, the Mekong has been a no-go river, its turbulent waters fouled by ideological barriers as formidable as its natural obsta.