From: danny@cs.su.oz.au (Danny Yee)
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 22:21:16 +1000
Subject: Book Review - River Road to China

     title: River Road to China
          : The Mekong River Expedition, 1866-73
        by: Milton Osborne
 publisher: Readers Union 1976
  subjects: exploration, history, Southeast Asia, China
     other: 249 pages, bibliography, index

In 1866-68 a small group of French explorers led by Lagree and Garnier
-- men who deserve to be as famous as Livingstone and Burton --
traveled all the way up the Mekong to the Chinese province of Yunnan,
in one of the epic feats of nineteenth century exploration.  Milton
Osborne sets their journey (and Garnier's later involvement in Tonkin)
in historical context and also hints at some of the later controversy
surrounding the expedition, but _River Road to China_ is basically a
grand tale of adventure.  I found it really intriguing: the whole story
was new to me, as I suspect it will be to most Anglo-Saxon readers.

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%T	River Road to China
%S	The Mekong River Expedition, 1866-73
%A	Milton Osborne
%I	Readers Union
%C	Newton Abbot
%D	1976
%O	hardcover, bibliography, index
%P	xx,249pp
%K	exploration, history, Southeast Asia

Danny Yee (danny@cs.su.oz.au)
20 June 1995

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