Title: The routes of man : how roads are changing the world and the way we live today /
Authors: Conover, Ted
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Conover, Ted Travel.; Roads Social aspects.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: 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.