Black Dragon River: A Journey down the Amur River

Bill Bryson has shown that you don't have to walk much of the Appalachian Trail to write a pretty good book about it. Dominic Ziegler has performed the same feat with the Amur River.

Ziegler set out to follow the river from its source to its mouth, but politics got in the way. For much of its length the Amur today forms the border between Russia and China, and both banks are mined and trip-wired. Any foreigner attempting to follow the river will probably find himself taking the Trans-Siberian Railway most of the way, as Ziegler did.