Ted Conover

by The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World;the Way We Live Today

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  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Ted Conover is the author of several books, including Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Coyotes, and Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and National Geographic. Recipient of a Guggen heim Fellowship, he is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University. He lives in New York City.

  THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

  PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

  Copyright © 2010 by Ted Conover

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  Grateful acknowledgment is made to Green Books and The Right Livelihood Foundation for permission to reprint excerpts from “Appropriate Technology and Co-operative Culture in Ladakh” by Helena Norberg-Hodge from Replenishing the Earth: The Right Livelihood Awards, 1986-1989, edited by Tom Woodhouse (Devon, UK: Green Books Ltd., 1990). Reprinted by permission of Green Books and The Right Livelihood Foundation.

  Portions of this work have appeared previously, in substantially different form, in National Geographic, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and Virginia Quarterly Review. All photographs by the author.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Conover, Ted.

  The routes of man : how roads are changing the world and the way we live today / Ted Conover.

  p. cm.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-59306-1

  1. Roads—Social aspects. 2. Conover, Ted—Travel. I. Title.

  HE341.C66 2010 388.1—DC22 2009024007

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