{"product_id":"the-oil-road-isbn-9781781681282","title":"The Oil Road","description":"From Caspian drilling rigs and Caucasus mountain villages to Mediterranean fishing communities and European capitals, this is a journey through the heart of our oil-obsessed society. Blending travel writing and investigative journalism, it charts a history of violent confrontation between geopolitics, profit and humanity. From the revolutionary futurism of 1920s Baku to the unblinking capitalism of modern London, this book reveals the relentless drive to control fossil fuels. Harrowing, powerful and insightful, \u003ci\u003eThe Oil Road\u003c\/i\u003e maps the true cost of oil.\"An elegantly written travel book about a pipeline … A distinctive blend of travelogue, reportage and history.\"—\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Inspirational in the proper sense.\"—\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A lovingly crafted narrative, a rich tapestry of first-hand anecdote and historical reconstruction.\"—\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Elegant … verges on the psychogeographical … The human stories behind the pipeline’s construction.\"—\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Opens the lid on the often-shady energy economy, weaving absorbing travel reportage into powerful investigative journalism.\"—\u003ci\u003eTime Out\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Week\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Seamlessly weaves an engaging personal story into the current geopolitics of oil aggression and the volatile recent history of the region.\"—\u003ci\u003eRed Pepper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Part-travelogue, part-reportage, The Oil Road is a powerful … account of how a valuable natural resource can ruin the lives of ordinary people … This is no dry historiography.\"—\u003ci\u003eSunday Business Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beautifully written as well as formidably well-informed … A pleasure to read.\"—Neal Ascherson, \u003ci\u003eBlack Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Oil Road\u003c\/i\u003e is an inspiring act of political cartography. It makes chastisingly visible the means by which we blithely consume ‘the geology of elsewhere.’\"—Robert Macfarlane, \u003ci\u003eThe Old Ways\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well researched and written with empathy, integrity and imagination. It is timely and much needed.\" Ahdaf Soueif, \u003ci\u003eThe Map of Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is so masterful, so authortatively researched and so elegantly written, that it suceeds in distilling a complex and changing ‘Carbon Web’ of engineering companies, legal firms, and financiers, into an intimate and engaging personal story.\"—Suzi Gablik, \u003ci\u003eHas Modernism Failed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Marriott\u003c\/b\u003e is an artist, naturalist, activist and co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Next Gulf: London, Washington and the Oil Conflict in Nigeria\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased in Cairo, \u003cb\u003eMika Minio-Paluello\u003c\/b\u003e is a sailor, beekeeper and campaigner for social movements resisting oil companies. Both work for Platform, a London-based arts, human rights and environmental justice organisation (www.platformlondon.org).A travelogue through power, corruption and oil--From Azerbaijan to the multinational corporations","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304695124197,"sku":"NP9781781681282","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781781681282.jpg?v=1767740783","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-oil-road-isbn-9781781681282","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}