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Book Review: Meltdown in Tibet

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Jan 17, 2015
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Michael Buckley is a travel writer who first went to Tibet to raft its rivers and describe its vast landscape in 1985. In the ensuing 30 years, according to a searing new book on environmental destruction at the hands of the Han Chinese, he has seen half of the territory’s forests disappear and its mighty rivers increasingly dammed.

It is a story that ha…

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