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

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

Nugent, Rory

Paperback

Travel GeneralDinosaursIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 1504037006
ISBN13: 9781504037006
Publisher: Open Road Distribution
Published: Oct 25 2016
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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