| Description |
1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Map; Preface; Preface to the 1999 Edition; Acknowledgments; The Fickle God; The Dogs of the Road; A Driver, a Checkpoint, an African Road; Waiting for the Marabout; Zinder Notes; Driving to Madness; Listening to Mariko; A Woman at the Wheel; An Ugly American; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chilson, Peter -- Travel -- Niger
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Chilson, Peter -- Travel -- Africa, West
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| SUBJECT |
Chilson, Peter fast |
| Subject |
Automobile travel -- Niger
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Automobile travel -- Africa, West
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TRAVEL -- Africa -- General.
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TRAVEL -- Africa -- West.
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Automobile travel
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Travel
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| SUBJECT |
Niger -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87001065
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Africa, West -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001696
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| Subject |
West Africa
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Niger
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2015302581 |
| ISBN |
9780820348346 |
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0820348341 |
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9780820347486 |
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0820347485 |
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