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Road Through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move
Mary Soderstrom
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Description for Road Through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move
Paperback. A thoroughly researched and beautifully written history of roads as vectors of change, Road Through Time documents how routes of migration and transport have transformed both humanity and our planet. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFFR; JHMC; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Regina Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28 g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Regina, Canada
ISBN
9780889774773
SKU
V9780889774773
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About Mary Soderstrom
Mary Soderstrom is the author of seven works of fiction and non-fiction. Her previous fiction has been shortlisted for the 1977 Books in Canada First Novel Award ( The Descent of Andrew McPherson ), and the QSPELL Hugh MacLennan Fiction Prize ( Endangered Species , 1995, and Finding the Enemy , 1997). She currently lives in Montreal.
Reviews for Road Through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move
Soderstrom constructs a competent layperson's guide in bright, conversational prose, skillfully using her own experiences and just-so stories about the peoples of the past as springboards to exploring humankind's long history of migration. http: //www.publishersweekly.com/pw/reviews/single/978-0-88977-477-3 A fascinating, entertaining, and informative read from cover to cover
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