Books by Ted Conover
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review 1: I have read three other books by Ted Conover, each of which I really enjoyed, so I was looking forward to reading this book. While his other books have delved into a single topic/place/people, this one had 6 relatively short essays on 6 roads (and the people, culture, place surr...
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review 1: The six sections of this book hang together well because Conover is in each story fully present, altitude-sick as he crosses a fourteen-thousand foot pass in the cab of a Peruvian cargo truck, or shivering in a cave in a cliff wall above a frozen river, eating monkey with woodcut...
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review 1: The title is presumably a play on Thomas Paine's 1791 book, 'The Rights of Man', or the old folk song with the same name. But rather than being about the world as it ought to be, or the policies cities or nations ought to pursue, Ted Conover deftly sketches the world as it is, t...