|
Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing
|
Buy Now
The Routes of Man - Travels in the Paved World (Paperback)
Loot Price: R496
Discovery Miles 4 960
|
|
|
The Routes of Man - Travels in the Paved World (Paperback)
 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R496
Discovery Miles 4 960
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle
Award-winning author of Newjack," " an absorbing book about roads
and their power to change the world.
Roads bind our world--metaphorically and literally--transforming
landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them. Roads have
unparalleled power to impact communities, unite worlds and sunder
them, and reveal the hopes and fears of those who travel them.
With his marvelous eye for detail and his contagious enthusiasm,
Ted Conover explores six of these key byways worldwide. In Peru, he
traces the journey of a load of rare mahogany over the Andes to its
origin, an untracked part of the Amazon basin soon to be traversed
by a new east-west route across South America. In East Africa, he
visits truckers whose travels have been linked to the worldwide
spread of AIDS. In the West Bank, he monitors highway checkpoints
with Israeli soldiers and then passes through them with
Palestinians, witnessing the injustices and danger borne by both
sides. He shuffles down a frozen riverbed with teenagers escaping
their Himalayan valley to see how a new road will affect the
now-isolated Indian region of Ladakh. From the passenger seat of a
new Hyundai piling up the miles, he describes the exuberant upsurge
in car culture as highways proliferate across China. And from
inside an ambulance, he offers an apocalyptic but precise vision of
Lagos, Nigeria, where congestion and chaos on freeways signal the
rise of the global megacity.
A spirited, urgent book that reveals the costs and benefits of
being connected--how, from ancient Rome to the present, roads have
played a crucial role in human life, advancing civilization even as
they set it back.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
