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The routes of man : travels in the paved world
With 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.
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SLIPPING from SHANGRI-LA
At more than 11,000 feet above sea level, the only real road in and out of Zanskar valley in Ladakh, the Buddhist part of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, is a dirt track from Kargil, a Muslim town just a couple miles from the border with Pakistan, to its main town. But for a few weeks each winter, the Zanskar river provides the Zankaris another way out--a forty-mile trail upon its frozen surface called the chaddar. Conover details his travel with the Zankaris, mostly students going to boarding schools, along the thinning chaddar of the river and how fast the glaciers are melting in the Himalayas that greatly affects the villagers.
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