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Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires

The Amur River is is the 8th or 9th longest river in the world; it borders Mongolia,China, and Russia. This river presents an interesting vantage point to view the historic rise of Gengis Kahn, Russian and Chinese expansion in the far East; all cente...

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Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Penguin Press; First Edition ~1st Printing edition (November 10, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1594203679
ISBN-13: 978-1594203671
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.2 x 9.6 inches
Amazon Rank: 1019571
Format: PDF Text djvu book

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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...

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