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Книга River Road to China Milton E Osborne

River Road to China

The Search for the Sources of the Mekong, 1866-73

Автор: Milton E Osborne
Език: Английски език
Корици: С меки корици
Издател: Avalon Travel Publishing
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In the mid-nineteenth century, no one in the Western world knew the full course -- or indeed the sou...

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Автор
Milton E Osborne
Език
Английски език
Корици
Книга - С меки корици
Издадена
1999
страници
247
EAN
9780871137524
ISBN
9780871137524
Enbook ID
06577384
Издател
Avalon Travel Publishing
Теглоt
431
Размери
140 x 210 x 32

Пълно описание

In the mid-nineteenth century, no one in the Western world knew the full course -- or indeed the source -- of the great Mekong River in Southeast Asia. In 1866 six Frenchmen set out on a dangerous mission to seek a trade route up the Mekong. During the two years that followed, they would journey through more than four thousand miles of unmapped territory, from the tropical heat of the swamps of Vietnam and Cambodia to the bitter cold of the mountain ranges of southwestern China.Their historic expedition is the dramatic subject of River Road to China by world-renowned Southeast Asia expert Milton Osborne. Selected by The New York Times as one of the Best Books of 1975 when it was originally published, this edition has been updated to include a new postscript by the author and more than thirty full-color illustrations by the expedition's artist. Osborne's book is not only a stirring narrative account of one of the most acclaimed expeditions in a great age of exploration -- it is a story of the courage, endurance, and determination or, six men in the face of unpredictable dangers and near-insurmountable odds.