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The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World, and the Way We Live Today
by Conover, Ted
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1400042445
- ISBN 13
- 9781400042449
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About This Item
U.S.A: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Alfred A Knopf Inc., 2010. Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition. Thirty-two photographs and six maps. From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of "Newjack", this is an absorbing book about roads and their power to change the world. Ted Conover explores six of these key byways worldwide and the changes they will bring or have brought to societies. He 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. Some examples of his travels follow. In Peru, he discussed a new east-west route across South America soon (if not already) to be constructed across the Amazon basin; In East Africa he visits truckers whose travels have been linked to the worldwide spread of AIDS; In a Himalayan valley, he explores how a new road will affect the now isolated Indian region of Ladakh. 333 pages with Notes, Bibliography, and Index. 6.5 x 9.6 inches. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2010.
Synopsis
Ted Conover is the author of several books including Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) and Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and National Geographic. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence in the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. He lives in New York City.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020212
- Title
- The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World, and the Way We Live Today
- Author
- Conover, Ted
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1400042445
- ISBN 13
- 9781400042449
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf Inc
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A
- Date Published
- 2010
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- ROADS, SOCIAL ASPECTS; TRAVEL; SCIENCE;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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