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The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck: A Journey into the Himalayas and Down the Brahmaputra

Name: The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck: A Journey into the Himalayas and Down the Brahmaputra
Brand: Open Road Integrated Media LLC
SKU: 9781504037006
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Contributors:

Rory Nugent

Publisher:

Open Road Integrated Media LLC

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Travel, History, Nature

Book Subcategory:

Special Interest, Asia, Animals

Book Topic:

Adventure, South, Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures

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Release Date:

2016-10-25

ISBN 13:

9781504037006

Weight:

0.7 lbs

Size:

8.50 x 5.50 x 0.56 inches

Pages:

248

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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.

About the Author
Rory Nugent is a writer and explorer. His work takes inventory of cultures and traditions gone missing and about to go missing. His findings have appeared in newspapers and magazines published around the world, and in his three books: Down at the Docks, The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck, and Drums Along the Congo.

The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck: A Journey into the Himalayas and Down the Brahmaputra

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