Kön: male
Nationalitet: USA
Bostadsorter: Beijing, China
Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA
Yrken: journalist
Kort biografi: Edward A. Gargan worked as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief for the New York Times in West Africa, China, India, and Hong Kong, was a magazine writer for the Los Angeles Times, and now covers Asia for Newsday. He was an Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and is the author of China’s Fate. He is based in Beijing and has a home on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.

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The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong av Edward Gargan

The author missed an opportunity to write a great book. From the beginning, it has the taint of political agenda. So many other books have been written about traveling the Mekong. Go in those directions.
Very disappointing!

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dettyrr | 3 andra recensioner | Sep 21, 2022 |

The river's tale : a year on the Mekong av Edward A. Gargan

A friend recommended this book as he knew I had travelled to about three-quarters of the destinations travelled by the author. Perhaps that is why I was less excited than I thought I would be when I finished it. Some of the sites along the Mekong I had travelled twenty-odd years ago, others as recently as last month (Luang Prabang), so there was a mix of both romantic nostalgia and small irritations. This is perhaps unfair to the author as The River's Tale is a personal travel diary and therefore does belong to a specific time--late 1990's/early 2000's (I confess I don't remember the actual year) and place. But readers should be aware that Asia has probably changed more in the past 10 years than any other time during its history, so many of the descriptions of both the terrain and the people and their dreams/concerns has changed, some radically. I am specifically thinking here of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam which have all exploded with tourism and its accoutrements.… (mer)

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pbjwelch | 3 andra recensioner | Jul 25, 2017 |

The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong av Edward Gargan

If you're into slow living, this book is for you. It is ver unexpectedly one of my all time travel favorites, following Gargan from the sources of the Mekong to it's delta in Vietnam a year later. The pulse of the river is also the pulse of the book, and I highly recommend it if you don't demand too much action, but can live with excelletn descriptive writing.

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geirsan | 3 andra recensioner | Jun 26, 2009 |

The River's Tale : A Year on the Mekong (Vintage… av Edward Gargan

Beautifully written account of a man's journey from the source of the Mekong to the sea. Made me want to pack by bags and leave for Asia...

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H_S_B | 3 andra recensioner | May 28, 2006 |

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