Article: A stray dog and English man . . .(Review)

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The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Article date:
August 25, 2002
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Byline: CATHERINE FAIRWEATHER

River Dog by Mark Shand Little, Brown pound sterling17.50 pound sterling14 (0870 165 0870) **** River Dog is the highly entertaining story of a journey which, ultimately, never gets completed: 'the last great Asian misadventure'. Author and adventurer Mark Shand has always nurtured an obsession with being the first person to travel the length of the legendary Brahmaputra river.

He spent years fine-tuning his plans to follow the river's watery 1,800-mile passage from its springs in the glacial snowmelt of Tibet through the remote frontier lands of India, into Bangladesh where the Brahmaputra broadens and gathers strength, ...

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