THE AMUR RIVER

Follow our greatest travel writer (and rusty Mandarin speaker) along the far eastern river that separates Russia from China, the two great ex-Communist giants, taking in Mongolia, Siberia and the Sea of Japan. Colin Thubron, at 79, travels the important but almost unknown Amur River the tenth longest river in the world that separates Russia from China in the Far East. The river rises in the mountains of north-east Mongolia (heartland of Genghis Khan) then flows into southern Siberia, after that, for over a thousand miles, it defin...[Llegir més]