Road Through Time
"A beautiful interweaving of memoir and history, of driving narrative and insightful reflection."-Ken McGoogan, author of Dead Reckoning and Kerouac's Ghost
Accessible and entertaining, Road Through Time 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 civilizations that have come before us?
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Accessible and entertaining, Road Through Time 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 civilizations that have come before us?
Mary Soderstrom
Mary Soderstrom est une auteure et journaliste montréalaise, spécialisée dans les questions environnementales, urbaines et politiques. Elle a publié une vingtaine d’ouvrages, mêlant fiction et non-fiction, et collabore régulièrement à des médias canadiens. *Concrete* s’inscrit dans sa démarche d’exploration des enjeux contemporains à travers une approche narrative et documentaire. Son travail se distingue par une curiosité insatiable pour les sujets souvent négligés, mais centraux dans notre quotidien.
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