Road Through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move - Couverture souple

Soderstrom, Mary

 
9780889774773: Road Through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0889774773 ISBN 13 : 9780889774773
Editeur : University of Regina Press, 2017

Synopsis

Accessible and entertaining, this book begins with the story of how anatomically modern humans left Africa to populate the world. She then carries us along the Silk Road in Central Asia, and tells of roads built for war in Persia, the Andes, and the Roman Empire. She sails across the seas, and introduces the first railways, all before plunking us down in the middle of a massive, modern freeway. The book closes with a view from the end of the road, literally and figuratively, asking, can we meet the challenges presented by a mode of travel dependent on hydrocarbons, or will we decline, like so many civilisations that have come before us?

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À propos de l?auteur

Mary Soderstrom lives in Montreal and is the author of sixteen other books of fiction and non-fiction. Her most recent work, River Music, was published in 2015.

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Éditeur
University of Regina Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0889774773
ISBN 13 
9780889774773
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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