The Routes of Man. How Roads Are Changing The World

Conover, Ted

ISBN 10: 1400042445 / ISBN 13: 9781400042449

Published by Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2010

About this Item

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 333 pages. In exploring how roads have the power to change the world, the author looks at six key byways worldwide - Peru, East Africa, West Bank, India, China, Nigeria.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Routes of Man. How Roads Are Changing The World
• Publisher: Alfred A Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1400042445
• ISBN 13: 9781400042449
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Road Transport

About this title

Synopsis

The Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing explores how roads literally and metaphorically bind the world and change its landscape, citing examples in such regions as China, the Andes and the West Bank.

About the Author

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.