Russia By River
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The Amur River
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Author : Colin Thubron
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2021-09-16
The Amur River written by Colin Thubron and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-16 with Travel categories.
'Thubron on top form. Richly detailed, immaculately written and full of insights and encounters that bring a complex corner of the world to life' MICHAEL PALIN 'A masterpiece' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE 'Unforgettable' ANTONY BEEVOR As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week _______________ A dramatic and ambitious new journey from our greatest travel writer. Rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific, the Amur River forms the tense border between Russia and China. This is the most densely fortified frontier on Earth. In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron takes a dramatic and often treacherous journey from the Amur's secret source to its giant mouth, covering almost 3,000 miles. Harassed by injury and by arrest from the local police, he makes his way along both the Russian and Chinese shores. By the time he reaches the river's desolate end, a whole, pivotal world has come alive. _______________ 'An epic journey along a frozen, fraught frontier... Fascinating' The Times 'This book is a triumph' Daily Telegraph A Financial Times, Sunday Telegraph and Spectator Book of the Year Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 2022
The Volga
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Author : Janet M. Hartley
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-12
The Volga written by Janet M. Hartley and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-12 with History categories.
A rich and fascinating exploration of the Volga--the first to fully reveal its vital place in Russian history The longest river in Europe, the Volga stretches over three and a half thousand km from the heart of Russia to the Caspian Sea, separating west from east. The river has played a crucial role in the history of the peoples who are now a part of the Russian Federation--and has united and divided the land through which it flows. Janet Hartley explores the history of Russia through the Volga from the seventh century to the present day. She looks at it as an artery for trade and as a testing ground for the Russian Empire's control of the borderlands, at how it featured in Russian literature and art, and how it was crucial for the outcome of the Second World War at Stalingrad. This vibrant account unearths what life on the river was really like, telling the story of its diverse people and its vital place in Russian history.
Russia By River
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Author : Howard Shernoff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Russia By River written by Howard Shernoff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Rivers categories.
Russia By River
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Author : Howard Shernoff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Russia By River written by Howard Shernoff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Moscow (Russia) categories.
The Volga River
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Author : Tim McNeese
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2005
The Volga River written by Tim McNeese and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Volga River Region (Russia) categories.
Contains an introduction to Russia's Volga river, tracing the history and geography of Europe's longest river, including a timeline of events, a bibliography, and suggestions for further reading.
Russia By River
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Author : Howard Shernoff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Russia By River written by Howard Shernoff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Moscow (Russia) categories.
Volga Volga
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Author : Lesley Chamberlain
language : en
Publisher: Picador (UK)
Release Date : 1995
Volga Volga written by Lesley Chamberlain and has been published by Picador (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Travel categories.
Black Dragon River
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Author : Dominic Ziegler
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2015-11-10
Black Dragon River written by Dominic Ziegler and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-10 with History categories.
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. One of Asia’s mightiest rivers, the Amur is also the most elusive. The terrain it crosses is legendarily difficult to traverse. Near the river’s source, Ziegler travels on horseback from the Mongolian steppe into the taiga, and later he is forced by the river’s impassability to take the Trans-Siberian Railway through the four-hundred-mile valley of water meadows inland. As he voyages deeper into the Amur wilderness, Ziegler also journeys into the history of the peoples and cultures the river’s path has transformed. The known history of the river begins with Genghis Khan and the rise of the Mongolian empire a millennium ago, and the story of the region has been one of aggression and conquest ever since. The modern history of the river is the story of Russia's push across the Eurasian landmass to China. For China, the Amur is a symbol of national humiliation and Western imperial land seizure; to Russia it is a symbol of national regeneration, its New World dreams and eastern prospects. The quest to take the Amur was to be Russia’s route to greatness, replacing an oppressive European identity with a vibrant one that faced the Pacific. Russia launched a grab in 1854 and took from China a chunk of territory equal in size nearly to France and Germany combined. Later, the region was the site for atrocities meted out on the Russian far east in the twentieth century during the Russian civil war and under Stalin. The long shared history on the Amur has conditioned the way China and Russia behave toward each other—and toward the outside world. To understand Putin’s imperial dreams, we must comprehend Russia’s relationship to its far east and how it still shapes the Russian mind. Not only is the Amur a key to Putinism, its history is also embedded in an ongoing clash of empires with the West.
The Volga Russia S River Of Five Seas
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Author : Jane Werner Watson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972-01-01
The Volga Russia S River Of Five Seas written by Jane Werner Watson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972-01-01 with Volga River (Russia) categories.
Traces the history of the 2,290 mile river that flows from the hills of northern Russia to the Caspian Sea.
Rivers In Russian Literature
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Author : Margaret Ziolkowski
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2020-11-20
Rivers In Russian Literature written by Margaret Ziolkowski and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Rivers in Russian Literature focuses on the Russian literary and folkloric treatment of five rivers—the Dnieper, Volga, Neva, Don, and Angara. Each chapter traces, within a geographical and historical context, the evolution of the literary representation of one river. Imagination may endow a river with aesthetic or spiritual qualities; ethnic, national, or racial associations; or commercial or agricultural symbolism of many kinds. Russian literary responses to these five rivers have much to tell us about the society that produced them as well as the rivers they treat. Distributed for UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PRESS