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45/100Critics
86/100Scholars
Author:
Colin Thubron
Publisher:
Harper
Date:
September 21, 2021
Travel writer, Colin Thubron, recounts a perilous journey along a little known Far East Asian river that for over a thousand miles forms the highly contested border between Russia and China.
What The Reviewers Say
Thubron’s elegant, elegiac and poignant book recounts his journey from the river’s source in the Mongolian mountains to Nikolaevsk.
Thubron may now be an octogenarian, but his new book, The Amur River: Between Russia and China, shows him still at the peak of his powers.
With ruminative gracefulness, [Thubron] describes his eastward.
Although an admirer of [Thubron's] works, I embarked on this one harbouring the dabbler’s secret fear of being awed but not entertained.
