This must be one of the most remote, and arguably the bleakest, riverine experience. Aged 80, Thubron travels by horse, track, road, rail and river to follow the Amur from the Mongolian mountains through Siberia to the Pacific. For many thousands of miles, the river marks the border between totalitarian frenemies Russia and China. The Russian Far East would appear to have forsaken civilisation, not surprising after brutal regimes extending from Tsarist days to the present.
(Jeremy Miller - bwl 107 Winter 2023 ) |
