Bibliograph

Black Dragon River, a Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires, Dominic Ziegler

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Black Dragon River, a Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires, Dominic Ziegler

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-344) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Black Dragon River

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

927297507

Responsibility statement

Dominic Ziegler

Sub title

a Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires

Summary

"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

Table Of 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

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