In this history of roads and what they have meant to the people who have driven them, one of Britain's favourite cultural historians reveals how a relatively si

As he crisscrosses America—driving in search of the present, the past, and himself—Larry McMurtry shares his fascination with this nation's great trails and

Roads matter to people. This claim is central to the work of Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox, who in this book use the example of highway building in South America