The Way to Go: Moving by Sea, Land, and Air

With stunning visuals and encyclopedic insight, the author of The Heights and The Works reveals how humans move across the globe

In our digital age, it’s easy to forget that almost everything we enjoy about modern life depends on motion. We ride in cars and on buses and trains to work; enjoy food shipped over oceans; fly high in the sky to any point on the planet. Over the last century, the world has come to rely on its ability to move just about anywhere effortlessly. But what prompted thi...