{"product_id":"the-routes-of-man-travels-in-the-paved-world-paperback","title":"The Routes of Man: Travels in the Paved World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTed Conover\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of \u003cb\u003eNewjack\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e an absorbing book about roads and their power to change the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRoads 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTed Conover\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of several books including \u003ci\u003eNewjack: Guarding Sing Sing\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) and \u003ci\u003eRolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes.\u003c\/i\u003e His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic.\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 7.95 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 08, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751322485024,"sku":"9781400077021","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8a5af53249a62932f8a072fa1d71c4ae.webp?v=1779970681","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-routes-of-man-travels-in-the-paved-world-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}