Black Dragon Riveris 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...