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xxv, 294 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 20 cm Wildest 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 Saig

Author

Keay, John

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Australia

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780007503797

Subjects

History, Humanities