Reviews for Time Innovation and Mobilities

The average rating for Time Innovation and Mobilities based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-07-27 00:00:00 Faiz Rehman This is a short little book, and one written by a curator rather than someone with hands-on expertise making or using wagons and carts, but it contains a wealth of information in spite of those limitations, mainly in the form of an extraordinary amount of very good illustrations and photographs. It's not great at explaining the hows and whys of things, so it pairs well with a book like Practical Carriage Building or The Wheelwright's Shop, which are bigger on practical knowledge but light on pictures and high-level views (because they were written when people could still be expected to know what carts and wagons actually looked like). (This edition has problems with some of the sub-chapters being cut off, which I'm assuming happened during the conversion from traditional print to print-on-demand. I don't think more than a few words were lost, but try to find a pre-2016 copy if you can.)

Review # 2 was written on 2014-08-22 00:00:00 Eric Shearin This book was mentioned on NPR and because the author explored roads in places where or near where we had been, I wanted to read it. His premise is about the power of roads to change the world- sometimes in good ways and sometimes in bad ones. In Peru he traveled with loggers who were denuding mahogany in Amazonia and brining it over the Andes to sell. In East Africa, he went with truckers. It is assumed that truckers had brought aids to towns along the routes when they visited whores. He also went into a remote part of the Himalayas in India and walked on ice an impending route to judge how it would affect the culture there. The toughest parts to read however, were visits to both Israeli and Palestine natives. The Israeli side has young soldiers who are bored but have to man check points. The Palestinian people he visited are constantly harrassed and in fear and unable to work because of the check point, both the ones that are always manned and those that are set up all of a sudden in a temporary manner. I truly felt that our pledges to Isreal are supporting an unfair situation. The final segment was to Lagos, Nigeria a place of poor and oil rich that sounds like road traffic may be the worst in the worl.