Riding the Demon : On the Road in West Africa /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Chilson, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Chilson, Peter.
Chilson, Peter > Travel > Niger.
Chilson, Peter > Travel > Africa, West.
Travel.
Automobile travel.
Voyages en automobile > Niger.
Voyages en automobile > Afrique occidentale.
Automobile travel > Niger.
Automobile travel > Africa, West.
Niger.
West Africa.
Niger > Descriptions et voyages.
Afrique occidentale > Descriptions et voyages.
Niger > Description and travel.
Africa, West > Description and travel.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (216 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9780820348346

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