TED CONOVER |
In his new book, The Routes of Man: How Roads are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today (Knopf), National Book Critics Circle Award-winning writer Ted Conover takes routes in use in the world today—and masterfully tells a big story of how we are connected—and separated—by the roads and routes we make to travel on, to transport goods, to make escapes, and also to control. Peru, the West Bank, the Himalayas, Nigeria, east Africa, and China: all figure vividly in this arresting, provocative book by the author of Newjack, Coyoytes, and Rolling Nowhere. "Ted Conover's exploration of six far-flung roads—from a truck route over the Andes to an ambulance crew's rounds in Lagos, Nigeria—will prove a delight, while at the same time serving to remind that in many places of the world the act of getting around is an art marked by pride, lust, corruption, and bloodshed." - Erik Larson. "Ted Conover is one of the great writers of my generation, and this may be his finest book. Fearless and compassionate, with echoes of Conrad and Kerouac, it explores how the road, once a symbol of limitless possibility, has become a path to annihilation." - Eric Schlosser.
- Street:
- The Elliott Bay Book Company
- Additional:
- 101 S. Main St.
- City:
- Seattle ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98104
- Country:
- United States
