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Title: Gargan's Tale Takes You To The River
Review: The thing that really grabbed me about The River's Tale was Gargan's seamless weaving of the political/historical context of the region on a general level (and he does indeed know the region well) with his own insightful unpackings of particular interactions along the river. The book has the ability to "put you there" in a way that is too often lacking in traditional political/historical attempts and which I have never found in other writings regarding the region. I'll never be able to spend a year on the Mekong, but Gargan has let me know what I've missed.I hope he takes the same trip in a decade; I'd bet we would get a very different book in many respects.Post script: is this the same Ed Gargan who was once the fastest schoolboy in Massachusetts??
