Black Dragon River
A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires
New York : Penguin Press, 2015.
Format: Book
Description: 357 pages : map ; 25 cm
"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.
Contents:
Prologue -- Part One: Onon -- -- Part Two: Irkutsk -- Part Three: Chita -- Part Four: Nerchinsk -- Part Five: Albazino -- Part Six: Blagoveshchensk -- Part Seven: Khabarovsk -- Part Eight: Nikolaevsk -- Epilogue - -Acknowledgments -- Selected Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.
Subjects:
Ziegler, Dominic -- Travel -- Amur River (China and Russia)
Amur River (China and Russia) -- Description and travel.
Russia -- Territorial expansion.
Russia -- Foreign relations -- China.
China -- Foreign relations -- Russia.
Ziegler, Dominic -- Travel -- Amur River (China and Russia)
Amur River (China and Russia) -- Description and travel.
Russia -- Territorial expansion.
Russia -- Foreign relations -- China.
China -- Foreign relations -- Russia.
ISBN:
9781594203671
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-344) and index.