{"product_id":"the-longest-line-on-the-map-the-united-states-pan-american-eric-rutkow-hardcover","title":"The Longest Line on the Map The United States Pan-American Eric Rutkow Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe Longest Line on the Map: The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas Hardcover – 8 January 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eby Eric Rutkow\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eCondition: New with reminder mark on bottom of book, minor wear on dust jacket\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: font-weight:\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: font-weight: font-style: italic\u003eAmerican Canopy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: font-weight:\u003e, a dazzling account of the world’s longest road, the Pan-American Highway, and the epic quest to link North and South America, a dramatic story of commerce, technology, politics, and the divergent fates of the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe Pan-American Highway, monument to a century’s worth of diplomacy and investment, education and engineering, scandal and sweat, is the longest road in the world, passable everywhere save the mythic Darien Gap that straddles Panama and Colombia. The highway’s history, however, has long remained a mystery, a story scattered among government archives, private papers, and fading memories. In contrast to the Panama Canal and its vast literature, the Pan-American Highway—the United States’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: font-style: italic\u003eother\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:\u003e great twentieth-century hemispheric infrastructure project—has become an orphan of the past, effectively erased from the story of the “American Century.”\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: font-style: italic\u003eThe Longest Line on the Map \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:\u003euncovers this incredible tale for the first time and weaves it into a tapestry that fascinates, informs, and delights. Rutkow’s narrative forces the reader to take seriously the question: Why couldn’t the Americas have become a single region that “is” and not two near irreconcilable halves that “are”? Whether you’re fascinated by the history of the Americas, or you’ve dreamed of driving around the globe, or you simply love world records and the stories behind them, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: font-style: italic\u003eThe Longest Line on the Map \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:\u003eis a riveting narrative, a lost epic of hemispheric scale.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:\u003e\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1px 18px; padding: 0px;\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003ePublisher ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eScribner (8 January 2019)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eLanguage ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eHardcover ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e448 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e1501103903\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e9781501103902\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eDimensions ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e16.51 x 3.81 x 23.5 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"1000 Things Australia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50846622843201,"sku":"B506","price":33.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1206\/9004\/files\/256041141315-0.jpg?v=1758765954","url":"https:\/\/1000things.com.au\/zh\/products\/the-longest-line-on-the-map-the-united-states-pan-american-eric-rutkow-hardcover","provider":"1000 Things Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}