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The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck: A Journey into the Himalayas and Down the Brahmaputra
Contributor(s): Nugent, Rory (Author)

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 ISBN: 1504037006     ISBN-13: 9781504037006
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLC
OUR PRICE: $12.34  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: October 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Special Interest - Adventure
- History | Asia - India & South Asia
- Nature | Animals - Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.70 lbs) 248 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Indian
- Cultural Region - Latin America
- Cultural Region - Asian
- Chronological Period - Prehistoric
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Fifty-two years after the pink-headed duck was last seen in the wild, Rory Nugent set off for India in search of this exceptionally rare bird. In Calcutta he prowled the fowl market, where a few of the ducks used to appear during the Raj. Traveling on to Delhi, he was befriended by a Cambridge-educated smuggler, and he learned of remote regions to the north where the duck might be found. In Sikkim, following the trail of a Yeti, he became lost in the Valley of Bliss and nearly imprisoned inside a forest of rhododendrons, each the size of a ranch house. Making his way to Assam, he bought a 13-foot skiff and paddled the Brahmaputra River from Burma to Bangladesh, with stops on an island, considered to be Kali's left breast, and at a Tantrist temple, where he stumbled on a grisly ritual in a graveyard. In a secluded marsh along the river he may have spotted the world's rarest duck.
 
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