Descending the Dragon: My Journey Down the Coast of Vietnam

by Jon Bowermaster

Sometimes the longest journey begins with great patience. When Jon Bowermaster proposed an 800-mile kayak expedition along Vietnam's northern coastline, the country's government initially responded, That will be quite impossible. Negotiation saved the day, and Jon Bowermaster and his team of five-including a Vietnamese-American woman who had fled Saigon as a child on the final day of war in 1975-completed an unprecedented voyage, seeing Vietnam and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1426203047
• ISBN13: 9781426203046
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: National Geographic Society
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 10.0"