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The Amur River : Between Russia and China

The Amur River : Between Russia and China

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Author: Thubron, Colin

Russia

Published on 16 September 2021 by Vintage Publishing (Chatto & Windus) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 304 pages
164 x 241 x 34 | 598g

'Thubron on top form. Richly detailed, immaculately written and

full of insights and encounters that bring a complex corner of the world to

life' Michael Palin

*As serialised on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week**Winner of the 2022 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards**Shortlisted for 2021 Duff Cooper Prize***A FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR**

**ONE OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S BEST 75 BOOKS OF 2021**

A dramatic and ambitious new journey from our

greatest travel writer.

The Amur River is

almost unknown. Yet it is the tenth longest river in the world, rising in the

Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific to form the

tense, highly fortified border between Russia and China.

In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron takes a dramatic 3,000-mile long

journey from the Amur's secret source to its giant mouth. Harassed by injury

and by arrest from the local police, he makes his way along both the Russian

and Chinese shores on horseback, on foot, by boat and via the Trans-Siberian

Railway, talking to everyone he meets. By the time he reaches the river's

desolate end, where Russia's nineteenth-century imperial dream petered out, a

whole, pivotal world has come alive.

The Amur River is a

shining masterpiece by the acknowledged laureate of travel writing, an urgent

lesson in history and the culmination of an astonishing career.

'Magnificent... Colin Thubron's observations on the relationship between

Russia and China are full of insight, from which the world can benefit as it

faces the challenges of the twenty-first century' Jung Chang

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