Get 3 audiobooks free with a 30-Day Free Trial Sign Up Free
The Amur River: Between Russia and China

The Amur River: Between Russia and China

Written by:
Colin Thubron
Narrated by:
Jonathan Keeble

Unabridged Audiobook

We’re sorry, this book is not available in your country.
Ratings
Book
Narrator
Release Date
September 16, 2021
Duration
10 hours 13 minutes
Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021

A dramatic and ambitious new journey for 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. For 1,100 miles it forms the tense border between Russia and China. Haunted by the memory of land-grabs and unequal treaties, this is the most densely fortified frontier on earth.

In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron takes a dramatic journey from the Amur's secret source to its giant mouth, covering almost 3,000 miles. Harassed by injury and by arrest from the local police, he makes his way along both the Russian and Chinese shores, starting out by Mongolian horse, then hitchhiking, sailing on poacher's sloops or travelling the Trans-Siberian Express. Having revived his Russian and Mandarin, he talks to everyone he meets, from Chinese traders to Russian fishermen, from monks to indigenous peoples. 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.

© Colin Thubron 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
1 book added to cart
Subtotal
$0.00
View Cart