April Read

I can't believe it's the end of the month, and now is when I am writing about my recommendation for what to read in April. It's just been a busy month! Nevertheless, the book is The Routes of Man How Roads are Changing the World, by Ted Conover. This book definitely sounds interesting. I want to jet set to all of the places the author goes to...they are some of my jet set destinations!

Synopsis from Fodors:
We use them every day, but we rarely take a moment to consider the roads we traverse as anything more than a means to reach a destination. In his newest book, The Routes of Man, Ted Conover takes an in-depth look at six roads around the world and explores their significance in building the cultures around them. The author travels from a lumber route in the Peruvian Amazon to an East African highway in the heart of the AIDS epidemic to a barricaded stretch in the West Bank. In the past, Conover's engaging style of immersion journalism has led readers on journeys with hobos on trains, shuttling people across the Mexican border, and guarding inmates in Sing Sing prison. In The Routes of Man he delivers an entertaining and poignant account of roads and the people they carry.