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The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong
by Edward Gargan
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375405844
- ISBN 13
- 9780375405846
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, January 2002. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Light edgewear to jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 332 pages. The chronicle of a remarkable three thousand mile journey down the Mekong River as it runs through China, Tibet, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
Synopsis
Edward A. Gargan worked as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief for the New York Times in West Africa, China, India, and Hong Kong, was a magazine writer for the Los Angeles Times , and now covers Asia for Newsday . He was an Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and is the author of China’s Fate . He is based in Beijing and has a home on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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- Books of the World
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000001267
- Title
- The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong
- Author
- Edward Gargan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375405844
- ISBN 13
- 9780375405846
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- January 2002
- Pages
- 332
- Size
- 4to
- Keywords
- travel, travelogue, Mekong, Mekong River, Mekong Delta, China, Tibet, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indochina, Indo-China, Southeast Asia
- Bookseller catalogs
- Exploration, Expeditions, and Discoveries; China; Laos; Asia; Thailand; Vietnam and the Vietnam War;
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- Spine
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This Book’s Categories
- Countries & Cultures Asia
- Countries & Cultures Asia East Asia Thailand
- Countries & Cultures Asia East Asia Vietnam
- Countries & Cultures Asia East Asia Laos
- Countries & Cultures Asia East Asia China
- History Asian History Chinese History
- Military & Military History Wars Vietnam War History / Military / Vietnam War
- Travel & Exploration Travel
- Food & Drink Cooking Regional & Ethnic Cooking Thai Cooking
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