Description: From the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau at more than 17,000 feet above sea level, the Yangtze sweeps nearly 4000 miles to the East China Sea near Shanghai. Its source, in a remote and sparsely populated area, was discovered in 1985; few travelers had seen the upper river in one of the last unexplored regions on Earth. Bangs and Kallen, coauthors of Rivergods , wanted to be the first Americans to raft the uncharted "Great Bend" section of the upper Yangtze. They lost out to Ken Warren and his Sino-USA Expedition; in addition, two Chinese groups planned to run the river from its headwaters (altitude 17,660 ft.) to Yibin (797 ft.). In three ill-fated expeditions of 1986 there were six fatalities. The following year, Bangs and Kallen successfully took a team of experienced rafters and well-heeled clients to the river. To their first-rate adventure story, the authors add background material on ethnic groups and early explorers of the region
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Book Title: Riding the Dragon's Back : a RIVER JOURNEY ON China's Yangtze
Original Language: English
Item Length: 6 in
Vintage: Yes
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 9 in
Personalized: No
Features: Dust Jacket, hardcover
Topic: Asia / China, Rafting
Item Width: 1 in
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Scribner
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed: No
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 1989
Type: action and adventure
Literary Movement: Modernism
Era: 1980s
Illustrator: Christian kallen
Author: Richard Bangs, Christian Kallen
Genre: Travel
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 35 oz
Number of Pages: 260
