Yangtze – Martha HOLMES Superprijs

Flowing over 6275 km (3900 miles) from one end of China to the other, the Yangtze is vast, varied, and mysterious, like China itself. It rises in the highlands of Tibet, where glaciers drip and ooze to create a network of icy channels that join to form what the Chinese call simply Chang Jiang, the Long River. From here it snakes and cascades its way through some of the world’s most spectacular scenery – precipitous mountains, narrow gorges, and lush lowlands of eastern China, made fertile by the mud spread …