Driven by a wander fever she says runs in her family, the Australian novelist Mary Gaunt sets out across northern China with her dog James Buchanan, passing through truculent T’ai Yuan Fu and the flood country of the Hoang-Ho. Her route then turns north into Russian territory, to the island of Sakhalin and the upper Amur, until the journey is broken off.
Brave, wry travel writing by a woman journeying alone through regions few Westerners saw. Download the free EPUB.