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Before the deluge : the vanishing world of the Yangtze's Three Gorges
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Before the deluge : the vanishing world of the Yangtze's Three Gorges

by Deirdre Chetham

An account of the people, cultures, and villages displaced by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam along China's Yangtze River, the largest hydroelectric project on Earth.

Accession 19808 ISBN 0312214170 Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
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