Hugging the Shores

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In The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719), Daniel Defoe gave the “Yamour” only a shrugging mention. Even now, it’s the least known (in the West) of all the great Eurasian rivers. Defoe said, quite wrongly, that there was no trade along it, and that “no Body, that ever I heard of,” had gone down […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/10/20/hugging-the-shores-the-amur-river-thubron/

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