{"product_id":"river-of-life-river-of-death-the-ganges-and-indias-future-9780198786177","title":"River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India's Future","description":"India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India. The waterway that has nourished more people than any on earth for three millennia is now so polluted with sewage and toxic waste that it has become a menace to human and animal health. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVictor Mallet traces the holy river from source to mouth, and from ancient times to the present day, to find that the battle to rescue what is arguably the world's most important river is far from lost. As one Hindu sage told the author in Rishikesh on the banks of the upper Ganges (known to Hindus as the goddess Ganga): \"If Ganga dies, India dies. If Ganga thrives, India thrives. The lives of 500 million people is no small thing.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on four years of first-hand reporting and detailed historical and scientific research, Mallet delves into the religious, historical, and biological mysteries of the Ganges, and explains how Hindus can simultaneously revere and abuse their national river. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStarting at the Himalayan glacier where the Ganges emerges pure and cold from an icy cave known as the \"Cow's Mouth\" and ending in the tiger-infested mangrove swamps of the Bay of Bengal, Mallet encounters everyone from the naked holy men who worship the river, to the engineers who divert its waters for irrigation, the scientists who study its bacteria, and Narendra Modi, the Hindu nationalist prime minister, who says he wants to save India's mother-river for posterity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCan they succeed in saving the river from catastrophe - or is it too late?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victor Mallet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/19\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198786177\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVictor Mallet\u003c\/strong\u003e is a journalist and author who has reported for three decades from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, first for \u003cem\u003eReuters\u003c\/em\u003e and then for the \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e. From 2012 to 2016 he was based in New Delhi as the \u003cem\u003eFT\u003c\/em\u003e's South Asia Bureau Chief, and is currently in Hong Kong as Asia News Editor. His highly praised book on the south-east Asian industrial revolution and the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, \u003cem\u003eThe Trouble with Tigers\u003c\/em\u003e (HarperCollins), was first published in 1999. He twice won the Society of Publishers in Asia award for opinion writing. In India, he was awarded the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism as a foreign correspondent for a 2012 feature about the rise of Narendra Modi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45053393338483,"sku":"9780198786177","price":45.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_10ba1e76-f613-4b24-b99d-707d51fe4478.jpg?v=1779969649","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/river-of-life-river-of-death-the-ganges-and-indias-future-9780198786177","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}