The Amur River Quotes

“The 130 species that swim the Amur read like a lexicon of invented creatures: the skygazer, the sharpbelly, the chameleon goby, the Amur sleeper, the three-lips, the eight-whiskered stone loach.”
― Colin Thubron, The Amur River: Between Russia And China

“A virgin with a dish of gold, it was said, could walk unmolested from China to Turkey.”
― Colin Thubron, The Amur River: Between Russia and China

“Those in the North Caucasus hang vacant, since ‘our people’, an old caretaker tells me, ‘are still dying there’, and deaths in Syria stand at four. I wonder bleakly if these scrupulous slabs will one day confess to casualties in Ukraine.”
― Colin Thubron, The Amur River: Between Russia and China