In this compelling account, Brian Eyler travels down the river, meeting the rebels trying to save it from destruction.

China Dialogue

The book describes how unsustainable human society's current relationship is with the Mekong

Council of Foreign Affairs

Brian Eyler … has penned an engaging and open-ended book, with a less elegiac tone than its title might imply. At many points a vividly reported travelogue.

China Dialogue

Eyler offers an unbiased, balanced, and nuanced sitrep of the challenges facing the Mekong ... Last Days of the Mighty Mekong is also full of stimulating facts and figures that grab and hold the reader's attention.

Diplomat

The Last Days is a timely reminder that one of the world's most remote and naturally beautiful areas is being trans­formed by industrial and urban development, the scale and pace of which have never been seen before. Eyler makes an erudite appeal for governments to face their past mistakes – including the over-damming of the river – and avert the further “wrecking of the Mekong's amazing eco-system”.

South China Morning Post

Eyler has written a breathtaking account of a journey down the river, from high up in the Chinese province of Yunnan to the Mekong Delta more than 2,700 miles away [...] His book reads like a travelogue, filled with vivid descriptions of the places he visits and the people he encounters. But it is also a stark warning that the river is heading for irreparable ruin.

Wall Street Journal