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ISBN: 9780864924452-07

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On the Road

From: Wanderlust

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Chapter Seven focus on travel by the ancient roads to modern highway systems. The chapter begins with ancient roads, the silk road, the art of cartography in Europe and its development of roads and system which connected the early modern world, the continental carriage trade, cycling and cyclists, the invention of the automobile, and the culture of road tripping and motorhomes.

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Laura Byrne Paquet

Laura Byrne Paquet is the author of The Urge to Splurge: A Social History of Shopping. Her articles have appeared in more than 70 publications in Canada, the U.S., and Europe, including National Geographic, Traveler, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, enRoute, Chatelaine, Canadian Living, and the Ottawa Citizen. Between her globe-trotting adventures, she finds time to write romance novels from her Ottawa home.