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The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck - A Journey into the Himalayas and Down the Brahmaputra (Paperback)
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The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck - A Journey into the Himalayas and Down the Brahmaputra (Paperback)
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List price R347
Loot Price R313
Discovery Miles 3 130
You Save R34 (10%)
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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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