from VisibleGhost

First a mini-rant. If publishers don't quit using the words change, changing, and changed in their titles and sub-titles I'm going to drop 47 sets of Encyclopedia Britannica on their collective head. The world changes everyday. Always has, always will. On to this 'changing' book. Roads and routes...

from bezoar44

The title is presumably a play on Thomas Paine's 1791 book, 'The Rights of Man', or the old folk song with the same name. But rather than being about the world as it ought to be, or the policies cities or nations ought to pursue, Ted Conover deftly sketches the world as it is, through the vehicle...

from deebee1

Conover explores six key byways in various continents, journeys down these roads and records the stories of the men and women who use them. By hitching a ride on a truck in the Peruvian Andes that was carrying a load of rare mahogany, he understands more about the origins and the trade of the muc...

from NewsieQ

When I travel, I consider myself to be "roughing it" if I stay in anything other than a Marriott hotel. Ted Conover is nowhere near as picky. His travels take him to places I have no desire to visit, living in conditions that can only be regarded as primitive. Still, he does have some interesting...