Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges

by Deirdre Chetham (Author)

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  2004

  $47.53

  I first sailed the Yangtze in 1983 on the Kun Lun, a foreign-leased cruise ship that went back and forth in seedy glamour between Shanghai and Chongqing. After great controversy, the Chinese government has begun construction of the world's largest hydroelectric dam in the Three Gorges section of the Yangtze, a place renowned for its beauty.