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In Bangladesh Simon sails down the mighty Padma River and visits fishermen who use trained otters to drive fish into their nets. From North East India, Simon treks through jungles and across rivers into Burma to meet the Chin people-an ethnic group who are brutalized and oppressed by the Burmese government.

This book recounts the author's 1977 expedition up the length of the Ganges river from its delta in the Bay of Bengal to near its source in the Himalayas.