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2003., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: 940.5 W378b Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch
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[1948], Bobbs-Merrill Call No: 973 J825n Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The American trails series
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-- Illustrated story of the Trans-Canada Highway.c2006., Stanton Atkins & Dosil Publishers Call No: 971 F818r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Alcuin Society 2006 awards for excellence in book design in Canada Volume: 2006.
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[2017], University of Regina Press Call No: QWF 388.1 S679r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In this thoroughly researched and beautifully written history of roads as vectors of change, Mary Soderstrom documents how routes of migration and transport have transformed both humanity and our planet. 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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2010., Baraka Books of Montreal Call No: QWF 971.4 F673r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This unusual, sometimes quirky, road book works like a mosaic. Its stones are the brief histories, candid snapshots, curious anecdotes, insights, reflections, and stories to make you smile. The big picture is a moving portrait of a little known but historically important corner of Canada - Quebec's Eastern Townships. Nick Fonda masterfully puts you behind the wheel - sometimes in the train's engine - and lets you meander through the Townships to meet the people who make the places unique and where the famous two solitudes have grown entwined. With new and thoughtful illustrations, Denis Palmer captures Nick Fonda's take on a part of the world that deserves to be better known.
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-- New history of the world.2017., Vintage Books Call No: 909 F828s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the growth of Greece and Rome to the depredations by the Mongols and the Black Death to the Great Game and the fall of Communism, the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East. The Silk Roads vividly captures the importance of the networks that crisscrossed the spine of Asia and linked the Atlantic with the Pacific, the Mediterranean with India, America with the Persian Gulf. By way of events as disparate as the American Revolution and the horrific world wars of the twentieth century, Peter Frankopan realigns the world, orientating us eastwards, and illuminating how even the rise of the West 500 years ago resulted from its efforts to gain access to and control these Eurasian trading networks. In an increasingly globalized planet, where current events in Asia and the Middle East dominate the world's attention, this magnificent work of history is very much a work of our times" --
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2016., Adult, 1453, HighBridge Audio Edition: Unabridged. Connect to this eAudiobook title Summary Note: From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and advent of Christianity and Islam, right up to Western imperialism and the great wars of the twentieth century, this epic, magisterial work illuminates how the Silk Roads-the crossroads of the world, the meeting place of East and West-perhaps more than anything else, shaped global history over the past two millennia. It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas, cultures, and religions, and it was the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the emergence of Greece and Rome to the depredations by the Mongols, the transmission of the Black Death, the struggles of the Great Game, and the fall of Communism, the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East. By way of events as disparate as the American Revolution and the world wars of the twentieth century, Peter Frankopan realigns the world, orienting us eastward, and illuminating how even the rise of the West five hundred years ago resulted from its efforts to gain access to and control of these Eurasian trading networks. In an increasingly globalized planet, where current events in Asia and the Middle East dominate the world's attention, this magnificent work of history is very much a work of our times.
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