Description
A number of magaziries, newspapers and
publishing houses, during the course of the
past few decades, have decided to embark
on series based on the world’s greatest
rivers. Their plans came to nothing because
they discovered that, because of political
restrictions, civil wars or bureaucratic
indifference, access to several crucial rivers
was denied to them. But when The Ooeeroer
Magazine recently embarked on just such a
project they managed, through a
combination of luck and patience, to send a
writer and photographer down every
waterway they had put on their original list.
This is the book oftheir series, and it contains
unique pictures and descriptions of such
remote and little known rivers as the
Irrawaddy – their team were the first
Western journalists to make the Mandalay to
Rangoon voyage in more than-thirty years-
the strange, impoverished, Alice-in-
Wonderland stretch of the Zambezi as it
flows through Marxist Mozambique, and the
mighty Zaire (or Congo), negotiated in a
remarkable vessel that even boasted its own
shipboard brothel.
All eleven chapters in this book have been
done with the flair necessary to justify the
legendary rivers they describe. Paul .
Theroux, travelling down the Yangtze with a
party of American millionaires, tells his story
with his cust~mary style and wit, while
Bruce Chatwin brilliantly evokes a
memorable trip on the Volga and Piers Paul
Read writes thoughtfully about the Danube
as he follows it from source to the sea.
Each author has risen marvellously to the
challenge placed before him, while the
stunning colour pictures of photographer
Colin [ones will remain in the memory for a
long time. For both the armchair traveller
and the aspiring explorer, Great Rivers of the
World must be required reading.
Yangtze
Volga
Irrawaddy
Mississippi
Loire
Zaire
Danube
Amazon
Nile
Zambezi
Ganges
160 pages
Hardcover
In very good preloved condition.