RIVER DOG: A JOURNEY DOWN THE BRAHMAPUTRA

Book ID/图书代码： 07980005B04834

English Summary/英文概要： The Brahmaputra is one of Asia’s longest rivers, and tracing its course from Tibet to Bangladesh is perhaps "the last great Asian adventure". Undeterred, Mark Shand set out to do just that, and River Dog tells of his journey accompanied by Indian friends and a dog called Bhaiti.
Shand’s previous book, Travels on My Elephant, told of travelling in India by elephant; after this experience, he writes, he could not imagine travelling without an animal. Enter Bhaiti--the true hero of River Dog--whose experiences sniffing after bitches and saving his master from death by snakebite provide Shand’s wit with plenty of opportunities to make its mark. As they progress, a touching bond develops between Shand and Bhaiti, with the author laughing along with his dog at his own stumbling progress--a 48-year-old not averse to sharing in the odd joint or opium bong, the false stereotype of the intrepid explorer is cleverly undone by Shand through his candour and the self-deprecating title of his book.
Shand certainly comes across as an old travelling hand. As he ventures through India his alcohol consumption increases daily, but fortunately by now Shand and company are travelling by boat and not on foot. Moving into Bangladesh, Shand becomes more observant; this is a new country to him, which gives his writing a freshness that is absent earlier in the book, and the narrative soon culminates with the team’s arrival at the Bay of Bengal. Shand’s excitement at reaching the sea is real enough, but he is subsequently prevented from completing the journey in Tibet by the Chinese authorities; although this undermines the "epic" nature of the journey, River Dog remains an entertaining account of a river voyage made by an unlikely team of one man and his dog

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作者带着一条印度狗,从西藏西部无人高原出发,驾着一条小船,沿着雅鲁藏布江顺流而下,历经三个国家,航程1800英里,直达孟加拉湾.在途中,他克服了许多地理和官僚机构的阻拦,表现了超人的耐心和说服技巧,才完成了这一壮举.书中记载了沿途的风光,人情和各种遭遇.

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About the Author/作者介绍： 马克·山德曾骑马穿越安第斯山脉，参加伦敦-悉尼的摩托比赛，驾船环游地球时在西太平洋搁浅，并到东南亚各地探险。他写过好几本游记书，其中的“骑象旅行”和“象皇后”得了奖。他还拍了一些野外生活和旅游的纪录片。

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