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Riding the Demon : On the Road in West Africa
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ISBN: 0820348341 9780820348346 9780820320366 9780820347486 0820347485 Year: 1999 Publisher: Athens : Baltimore, Md. : University of Georgia Press, Project MUSE,

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In Niger, where access to rail and air travel requires overcoming many obstacles, roads are the nation's lifeline. For a year in the early 1990s, Peter Chilson traveled this desert country by automobile to experience West African road culture. He crisscrossed the same roads again and again with bush taxi driver Issoufou Garba in order to learn one driver's story inside and out. He hitchhiked, riding in cotton trucks, and traveled with other bush taxi drivers, truckers, road engineers, an anthropologist, Niger's only licensed woman commercial driver, and a customs officer. The road in Africa, s


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Touring guide to Scotland
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ISBN: 0092115608 Year: 1978 Publisher: Basingstoke Automobile Association

The WPA guide to Kentucky
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ISBN: 9780813158693 0813158699 0813108659 Year: 2015 Publisher: Lexington The University Press of Kentucky

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One of the first great reference tools on the Commonwealth, this WPA Guide is an important, vital part of our heritage. While it includes brief essays describing Kentucky's history, folklore, education, industry, geology, ethnic mix and other topics, the most remarkable feature is the driving tours that are as accurate today as they were more than half a century ago. Careful annotations give directions, point out historical and tourist sites, describe the country side, and even provide mileage for the drives.


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Thoughts on driving to Venus
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ISBN: 9780889848276 0889848270 9780889843844 0889843848 Year: 2015 Publisher: Erin, Ontario

Buyways
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ISBN: 9786610240289 1135952442 1280240288 0203494636 0415934559 0415934540 1135952434 9780203494639 9780415934541 9780415934558 6610240280 9781135952440 9781135952396 1135952396 9781135952433 Year: 2004 Volume: *1 Publisher: New York Routledge

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In Buyways, Catherine Gudis focuses on the development of the outdoor advertising industry in 20th century America, and its role in the commodification of the landscape.


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Bibracte (Saône-et-Loire): une ville gauloise sur le mont Beuvray
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ISBN: 2110809086 9782110809087 Year: 1987 Volume: 13 Publisher: Paris Ministère de la culture et de la communication

Americans on the road : from autocamp to motel, 1910 - 1945.
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ISBN: 0262021234 Year: 1979 Publisher: Cambridge MIT press


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Atlantic automobilism : the emergence and persistence of the car, 1895-1940
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ISBN: 9781782383789 1782383786 9781782383772 1782383778 1322950660 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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Our continued use of the combustion engine car in the 21st century, despite many rational arguments against it, makes it more and more difficult to imagine that transport has a sustainable future. Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early car users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad range of material including novels, poems, films, and songs to unearth the desires that shaped our present ""car society."" Combining social,


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Seldom seen
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ISBN: 1282423886 9786612423888 0803226438 9780803226432 0803216165 9780803216167 9781282423886 9780803216167 Year: 2009 Publisher: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press

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In May 1995, with nothing but a backpack and a vague sense of disquiet, Patrick Dobson left his home and a steady if deadening job in Kansas City, Missouri. Over the next two and a half months he made his way to Helena, Montana, letting chance encounters guide him to a deeper sense of who he was and where he was going. His chronicle of this journey charts his experiences with the seldom-seen people of the small towns, the far-flung outposts, and the Great Plains that make up "our America."


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Visa transit : volume 1
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ISBN: 2075130930 9782075130936 Year: 2019 Publisher: Paris Gallimard

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"'Je dois partir et vivre, ou rester et mourir' écrit Shakespeare, repris par Nicolas Bouvier en exergue de L'usage du monde. À l'été 1986, quelques mois après l'accident nucléaire de Tchernobyl, Nicolas de Crécy et son cousin ont à peine 20 ans quand ils récupèrent une Citroën Visa moribonde. Ils remplissent la voiture de livres, qu'ils ne liront pas, ajoutent deux sacs de couchage, des cigarettes... et embarquent pour un voyage qui n'a pas de destination, mais doit les mener le plus loin possible. Ils traversent le nord de l'Italie, la Yougoslavie, la Bulgarie et descendent en Turquie, dans un périple qui les confrontent au monde autant qu'à eux-mêmes."--Publisher.

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