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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
This is an account of a journey in 1990 to try to establish the source of the Oxus, a river which "starts with a bang …and finishes with a whimper." But controversy has raged for years about its exact source. Naval Lt. Wood claimed that the Syr Kul lake was the source and his view held sway for fifty years until Lord Curzon discovered an Ice Cave which he declared was the true source of the Oxus. Colegrave's journey retraced the steps of earlier explorers and adventurers, up the Wakhan valley, into the Pamirs and along the Wajkir river. He located Curzon's Ice Cave but then went on to discover the deep valley of the Chelab river, which he asserts is the true source of the Oxus.
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