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On Roads: A Hidden History (Hardcover)

by Joe Moran (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Profile Books (11 Jun 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1846680522
  • ISBN-13: 978-1846680526
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,741 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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`Truly wonderful...every minute devoted to this book is richly rewarded.' --David McKie, author of 'Great British Bus Journeys'

'Wonderful. Joe Moran is the master of turning the mundane realities of everyday life into the stuff of history.' - Dominic Sandbrook
--Dominic Sandbrook

'Terrific... he takes numerous diversions into subjects that really shouldn't be interesting, but which he makes fascinating... entertainingly contrarian' - Robert Macfarlane, The Guardian
--Robert Macfarlane, The Guardian

'Packed with fascinating detail' --Brian Morton, Glasgow Herald

`Expansive, unexpected cultural history... it's loaded with strange and delightful details ... I've got many pages folded over' --Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic

`This is a part-bonkers, part-brilliant book, as many of the best books are.' --Jonathan Wright, The Tablet

`The optimism and sense of wonder of the era is evoked brilliantly... an elegant piece of scholarship... engrossing' --Alasdair Reid, Sunday Herald


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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful, engrossing book which needed to be written and deserves to be read, 7 Jul 2009
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This is a wonderful, engrossing book which needed to be written and deserves to be read. Funny, engaging, incredibly well-researched and impressively broad in its scope, On Roads tells the fascinating - and it is, truly - postwar history of British roads and the British motorist and is peppered with the sort of extraordinary facts and trivia I can't resist. Bob Geldof working on a roadgang on the M25, a quarter of a million fish being rescued before they started building Spaghetti Junction, and why migrating birds love the A34. Fantastic.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A whole new take on motoring, 30 Jun 2009
I bought this book to give as a present but became too engrossed to give it away. I've always wondered why you tend to see so many kestrels and kites when you're driving along the motorway - and this book explains it all. This is a completely fascinating look at something I - like many other people I'm sure - tend to take for granted. Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A1!!!, 30 Aug 2009
The reviews I read elsewhere for this book were right-it is a well-researched, topical and absorbing record of all things road-related, with some fantastic observations on our habits on the road, both good and bad. The attention to detail belies the author's age...I think I managed to work it out from an early passage in the book! A must for anyone that travels on the road a lot (that'd be a "motorist" then?!) and especially the motorway network; those boring stretches of landscaped tarmac and concrete will never seem quite as dull again-who'd have thought that motorway services have a social history all of their own?! Amazon take Pole Position for offering the hard-back edition of this book on one of its promotions; I only wish I'd ordered the soft-back as well-that way I could have kept it in the glovebox of the car to read next time I'm in those roadworks on the M1!
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