The Mystery Rivers of TibetA Description of the Little Known Land Where Asia s Mightiest Rivers Gallop in Harness Through the Narrow Gateway of Tibet, Its Peoples, Fauna Flora This book is a collection of several journeys of the author in Burma and Yunan Area of South Eastern Tibet Of the three great Asiatic rivers referred to in the text, the Yangtze Kin sha is the largest, the Mekong the smallest the Salween, though considerably smaller than the Yangtze, is bigger than the Mekong All three rivers rise far up on the great frozen plateau of north central Tibet, known as the Chang Tang and in that particular mountain range, averaging 17,000 feet above sea level, known as the Tang la.There is evidence to show that the Himalayan mountain system formerly extended eastwards far into China and that it was broken through, possibly by earth movements, possibly by rivers cutting back at their heads At any rate, the narrow belt between 95 and 100 E long and qO 30 N lat., where the great Tibetan rivers change direction and converge to roll through the mountains, jammed into the narrowest possible space, represents a breach in the great east west divide The broken eastern end of t21 Himalayan system forms a huge bluff, overlooking the plain of Assam The broken western end can be picked up somewhere inthe Tibetan Marches, east of the Yangtze The two ends are connected by an arc of snowy peaks which, springing from the Salween Brahmaputra divide, enclose the headwaters of the Irrawaddy That at one point the three rivers should flow within fifty miles of each other, the Mekong in the centre being 28 miles from the Yangtze and 20 miles from the Salween, is one of the geographical wonders of the world.This book merely moves around the geographical location now known as Land of Three Parallel Rivers Three Parallel Rivers National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Yunnan, China.Descending from Tibet, three mighty rivers here run parallel to each other for over 200 km 125 miles , carving out vast canyons, before diverging halfway across Asia, nourishing billions and giving rise to splendid civilizations.