Main entry:

Conover, Ted.

Title & Author:

The routes of man : travels in the paved world / Ted Conover.

Edition:

1st Vintage books ed.

Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 2011, ©2010.

Description:

333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

Notes:
Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-321) and index.
Forest primeval to Park Avenue : road or not a road? -- Slipping from Shangri-La : road ecology -- The road is very unfair : double-edged roads -- A war you can commute to : speed up! -- Capitalist roaders : growing Broadway -- Drive soft : life no get duplicate.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9781400077021 (pbk.)
1400077028 (pbk.)

Subject:

Conover, Ted Travel.
Conover, Ted.
Roads Social aspects.
Routes Aspect social.
Travel.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285135
Call No.: BIB 224479
Status: Available