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 82-year-old British author, whose new travelogue, “The Amur River: Between Russia and China,” was released Sept. 21 by HarperCollins, has built a career on keen observation; deft sketches ...

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. For 1,100 miles it forms the tense ...

By Ben Ehrenreich 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 ...

The phrase comes to mind while plunging into the world author Dominic Ziegler explores in his thrillingly thorough geohistory, Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands ...