{"product_id":"9781627795685","title":"The Last Barbarians: The Discovery Of The Source Of The Mekong In Tibet","description":"\u003cp\u003eMore than thirty years ago, Michael Peisel's classic, \u003ci\u003eMustang: A Lost Tibetan Kingdom, \u003c\/i\u003eintroduced the world to a region more isolated than the deepest Amazon. Against the odds--and in the tradition of the nineteenth-century explorers of whom he is a direct descendant--Peissel has combed Tibet for forty years and has come to know one of the last nomadic peoples on earth to live with what he calls a \"Stone Age memory.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1994, seizing the rarest of opportunities to journey deep into occupied Tibet, he accomplished what scores of Western explorers had tried and failed to do for more than a hundred years: He found the source of the Mekong River in the ice-strewn fields on the \"roof of the world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis immensely readable account tells how a small group of modern adventurers made history not once, but twice, in the course of a single year: by accurately charting the origins of one of  Asia's most majestic and storied waterways and by finding a living fossil, the Riwoche horse, a species unknown to contemporary zoology that may prove to be a missing link in equine evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book's stage is forbidden Tibet--with its tragic politics, its natural wonder, and its fiercely independent nomadic tubes, who are known to the chinese as \"the last barbarians.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172090233072,"sku":"9781627795685","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781627795685_p0.jpg?v=1769905434","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781627795685","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}