Fifty-two years after the pink-headed duck was last seen in the wild, Rory Nugent set off for India in search of this exceptionally rare bird.
In Calcutta he prowled the fowl market, where a few of the ducks used to appear during the Raj.
Traveling on to Delhi, he was befriended by a Cambridge-educated smuggler, and he learned of remote regions to the north where the duck might be found.
In Sikkim, following the trail of a Yeti, he became lost in the Valley of Bliss and nearly imprisoned insi.
Open Road Distribution The search for the pink-headed duck: a journey into the himalayas and down the brahmaputra, paperback/rory nugent
