Contents

Map of China

In Gratitude

Author's Note

Prelude

1 The Plan

2 The Mouth, Open Wide

3 The City Without a Past

4 The First Reach

5 City of Victims

6 Rising Waters

7 Crushed, Torn and Curled

8 Swimming

9 A New Great Wall

10 The Shipmasters' Guide

11 The Foothills

12 The Garden Country of Joseph Rock

13 The River Wild

14 Harder Than the Road to Heaven

15 Headwaters

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index