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In the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning writer of Newjack, an absorbing book about streets and their capacity to alter the world.Roads join our literally—transforming and world—metaphorically areas and the lifestyles of the folks who occupy them. Streets have unmatched capacity to effect towns, combine sides and sunder them, and expose the desires and concerns of the who travel them.With his wonderful eye for detail and his infectious passion, Ted Conover examines six of the crucial byways global. In Peru, he traces the journey of the fill of unusual mahogany within the Andes to its source, an untracked area of the Amazon basin soon-to be traversed with a new east west route across South Usa. In East Africa, he trips truckers whose moves have now been from the global spread of AIDS.