The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck: A Journey into the Himalayas and Down the Brahmaputra by Nugent, Rory
The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck: A Journey into the Himalayas and Down the Brahmaputra by Nugent, Rory

The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck: A Journey into the Himalayas and Down the Brahmaputra

Fifty-two years after the pink-headed duck was last seen in the wild, Rory Nugent set off for...
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Author: Rory Nugent
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The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck: A Journey into the Himalayas and Down the Brahmaputra by Nugent, Rory

The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck: A Journey into the Himalayas and Down the Brahmaputra

$35.86
The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck: A Journey into the Himalayas and Down the Brahmaputra by Nugent, Rory

The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck: A Journey into the Himalayas and Down the Brahmaputra

$35.86
Author: Rory Nugent
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Rory Nugent
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLC
Published: 10/25/2016
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781504037006

About the Author
Rory Nugent is a writer and explorer. His work takes inventory of cultures and traditions gone missing and about to go missing. His findings have appeared in newspapers and magazines published around the world, and in his three books: Down at the Docks, The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck, and Drums Along the Congo.


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