Black Dragon River : A Journey Down the Amur River Between Russia and China (Paperback)

from Shrike58

By the time that the narrative of this travelogue comes into focus it turned out not to be the book I was expecting. From the way it starts I was expecting more of a natural history study. What you really wind up with is a meditation on the rise and fall of Russian dreams of empire in the Far Eas...

from Stbalbach

Dominic Ziegler is a writer for the Economist who traveled 4000km from the source of the Amur River to the Pacific ocean (mostly by train), describing the present and the past of the region. I found it somewhat hard going because about 80% of the book is regional history regurgitated somewhat ran...

from Welsh_eileen2

A fascinating account of travel along the river Amus, so called by the Siberians and Black Dragon River by the Chinese.This river flows between the two powerful countries and the book is about the author's very eventful journey along the nearly 5,000 miles of water, meeting various chracters alon...

from PDCRead

The Black Dragon River has a long history, reaching as far back as Genghis Khan and the Mongolian empire around 1000 years ago. This was the beginning of its tumultuous history of conflict and war that has lasted pretty much until the present day. Also called the Amur, it is a river that I had ne...