The routes of man : how roads are changing the world and the way we live today /
Conover, Ted.
The routes of man : how roads are changing the world and the way we live today / Ted Conover. - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. - 333 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references 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.
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.
9781400042449 (alk. paper) 1400042445 (alk. paper)
2009024007
Conover, Ted--Travel.
Roads--Social aspects.
HE341 / .C66 2010
388.1
The routes of man : how roads are changing the world and the way we live today / Ted Conover. - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. - 333 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references 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.
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.
9781400042449 (alk. paper) 1400042445 (alk. paper)
2009024007
Conover, Ted--Travel.
Roads--Social aspects.
HE341 / .C66 2010
388.1