End of the road NIKHIL KRISHNAN The Amur River: Between Russia and China
Chatto & Windus £20
Late in this book, which may be his last, Colin Thubron writes his most unsettling sentence: ‘Over the past weeks, in a hotel mirror, I have seen with surprise an old man in his eightieth year, then forgotten him.’
He sees himself, for a moment, as his doughty Siberian companion must do, as ‘a stubborn pensioner’, travelling for obscure reasons along the mighty but unsung Amur
