{"product_id":"9781784742874","title":"The Amur River : Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron","description":"Thubron on top form. Richly detailed, immaculately written and   full of insights and encounters that bring a complex corner of the world to   life' Michael Palin     *As serialised on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week**Winner of the 2022 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards**Shortlisted for 2021 Duff Cooper Prize***A FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR**     **ONE OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S BEST 75 BOOKS OF 2021**________________________     A dramatic and ambitious new journey from 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 to form the   tense, highly fortified border between Russia and China.        In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron takes a dramatic 3,000-mile long   journey from the Amur's secret source to its giant mouth. Harassed by injury   and by arrest from the local police, he makes his way along both the Russian   and Chinese shores on horseback, on foot, by boat and via the Trans-Siberian   Railway, talking to everyone he meets. 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.        'Magnificent... Colin Thubron's observations on the relationship between   Russia and China are full of insight, from which the world can benefit as it   faces the challenges of the twenty-first century' Jung Chang\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43206228181170,"sku":"9781784742874","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/products\/9781784742874.jpg?v=1690746293","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781784742874","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}