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The Amur River belongs to nobody. Amber, a physician’s assistant and wilderness medic from America, was first attracted to the Amur by its remoteness and rare status as a free-flowing river. The ...
Luckily our many sacrifices to the Amur River (a shoe, a GPS, a water drom, our pride) seemed to come back to us in good travel karma. The only English speaker for probably 600 kilometers ...
The result is “The Amur River,” whose subject, the world’s 10th longest river, forms the border between Russia and China—“a fault-line,” Mr. Thubron writes, “shrouded in old mistrust.” ...
The Amur river (known as the Heilong in China) flows for over 4,000km, starting in Mongolia and forming the border between north-east China and south-east Russia. Around it is a vast region of ...
Amur is the 10th longest river in the world Shutterstock To receive a lifetime award brings a qualm of unworthiness along with a glow of pleasure. There’s also a touch of the obituary about it.
After a month in Mongolia, Becca realized her own journey had changed once again. While the… Editor’s Note: On April 7, the Nobody’s River team began a very different kind of journey.
THE AMUR RIVER Between Russia and China By Colin Thubron. Travel writing is a complicated pleasure. Titillating stories of faraway lands date to at least as far back as the fifth century B.C ...
The Onon River is a source of the Amur River, listed as internationally important site. It is obvious that the Amur River will be impacted if the Onon River is polluted or contaminated. Meanwhile, the ...
By the time Colin reaches the river's desolate end, where Russia's 19th century imperial dream petered out, a whole, pivotal world has come alive. An omnibus of five parts written by Colin Thubron ...
It only sometimes occurs to Colin Thubron that you may think he’s old. The 82-year-old British author, whose new travelogue, “The Amur River: Between Russia and China,” was released Sept. 21 ...
The Government of Mongolia has just made a decision to abolish the license of "U and B", gold mining company in the area of the Onon River, head of the Amur River. The company was causing pollution in ...
Amur Heilong. The Amur (Heilong) river basin of north-east Asia, home of the critically endangered Amur leopard, the endangered Amur tiger and a tremendous wealth of biodiversity, is under increasing ...