The brilliant, award-winning author of American Canopy presents a dazzling account of the epic quest to link North and South America with the world's longest road--the Pan American Highway--and how its construction and evolution reflected the divergent fates of North, Central, and South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Pan-American Highway is the longest road in the world, running the length of the Western Hemisphere from Prudhoe Bay in Alaska to Tierra del Fuego in South... Celý popis
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The brilliant, award-winning author of American Canopy presents a dazzling account of the epic quest to link North and South America with the world's longest road--the Pan American Highway--and how its construction and evolution reflected the divergent fates of North, Central, and South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Pan-American Highway is the longest road in the world, running the length of the Western Hemisphere from Prudhoe Bay in Alaska to Tierra del Fuego in South America. It represents a dream of friendship, commerce, mobility, of the Americas united. Our collective imaginations have been forged along its path: Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the iconic Argentine revolutionary, traveled it northward in The Motorcycle Diaries; Jack Kerouac, the voice of the beat generation, followed it southward in On the Road. Many adventurers have
The Pan-American Highway is the longest road in the world, running the length of the Western Hemisphere from Prudhoe Bay in Alaska to Tierra del Fuego in South America. It represents a dream of friendship, commerce, mobility, of the Americas united. Our collective imaginations have been forged along its path: Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the iconic Argentine revolutionary, traveled it northward in The Motorcycle Diaries; Jack Kerouac, the voice of the beat generation, followed it southward in On the Road. Many adventurers have
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