Black dragon river
Subtitle: a journey down the Amur River at the borderlands of empires
By: Dominic Ziegler
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9781594203671
Subjects: Travel; History; Description and travel; Foreign relations; Territorial expansion
Description: "Black Dragon River is a personal journey down one of Asia's great rivers that reveals the region's essential history and culture. The world's ninth largest river, the Amur serves as a large part of the border between Russia and China. As a crossroads for the great empires of Asia, this area offers journalist Dominic Ziegler a lens with which to examine the societies at Europe's only borderland with east Asia. He follows a journey from the river's top to bottom, and weaves the history, ecology and peoples to show a region obsessed with the past--and to show how this region holds a key to the complex and critical relationship between Russia and China today."--NoveList.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-344) and index.
Table of contents: title: part 1. Onon; title: part 2. Irkutsk; title: part 3. Chita; title: part 4. Nerchinsk; title: part 5. Albazino; title: part 6. Blagoveshchensk; title: part 7. Khabarovsk; title: part 8. Nikolaevsk.