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The Oil Road: Journeys From The Caspian Sea To The City Of London
James Marriott
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Description for The Oil Road: Journeys From The Caspian Sea To The City Of London
Paperback. A journey along a controversial Central Asian pipeline becomes a profound exploration of the oil economy. Num Pages: 390 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KNBP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 28. Weight in Grams: 504.
In a unique journey from the oil fields of the Caspian Sea to the refineries and financial centres of Northern Europe, James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello track the concealed routes along which flows the lifeblood of our economy. The stupendous resource of Azerbaijani crude has long inspired dreams of a world remade. From the revolutionary Futurism of the capital city, Baku, in the 1920s to the unblinking Capitalism of modern London, the drive to control the region's oil reserves-and hence people and events-has shattered environments and shaped societies.
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In a unique journey from the oil fields of the Caspian Sea to the refineries and financial centres of Northern Europe, James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello track the concealed routes along which flows the lifeblood of our economy. The stupendous resource of Azerbaijani crude has long inspired dreams of a world remade. From the revolutionary Futurism of the capital city, Baku, in the 1920s to the unblinking Capitalism of modern London, the drive to control the region's oil reserves-and hence people and events-has shattered environments and shaped societies.
In The Oil Road, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781681282
SKU
V9781781681282
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About James Marriott
James Marriott is an artist, naturalist, activist and co-author of The Next Gulf: London, Washington and the Oil Conflict in Nigeria. Based in Cairo, Mika Minio-Paluello 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).
Reviews for The Oil Road: Journeys From The Caspian Sea To The City Of London
The Oil Road is an inspiring act of political cartography. It makes chastisingly visible the means by which we blithely consume 'the geology of elsewhere.'
Robert Macfarlane, author of The Wild Places and The Old Ways As global powers scramble for the last of the world's diminishing resources, comes this book-well researched and written with empathy, integrity and imagination. ... Read more
Robert Macfarlane, author of The Wild Places and The Old Ways As global powers scramble for the last of the world's diminishing resources, comes this book-well researched and written with empathy, integrity and imagination. ... Read more