Riding the demon : on the road in West Africa /

Riding the demon : on the road in West Africa /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Chilson, Peter, author.
Imprint:	Athens, Georgia ; London [England] : The University of Georgia Press, 2015. ©1999
Description:	1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Chilson, Peter -- Travel -- Niger. Chilson, Peter -- Travel -- Africa, West. Chilson, Peter. Automobile travel -- Niger. Automobile travel -- Africa, West. Automobile travel. Travel. Niger -- Description and travel. Africa, West -- Description and travel. West Africa. Niger.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11405174

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ISBN:	9780820348346 0820348341 9780820320366 9780820347486 0820347485
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	In Niger, where access to rail and air travel requires overcoming many obstacles, roads are the nation's lifeline. For a year in the early 1990s, Peter Chilson traveled this desert country by automobile to experience West African road culture. He crisscrossed the same roads again and again with bush taxi driver Issoufou Garba in order to learn one driver's story inside and out. He hitchhiked, riding in cotton trucks, and traveled with other bush taxi drivers, truckers, road engineers, an anthropologist, Niger's only licensed woman commercial driver, and a customs officer. The road in Africa, s.
Other form:	Print version: Chilson, Peter. Riding the demon : on the road in West Africa. Athens, Georgia ; London, [England] : The University of Georgia Press, 2015, ©1999 xxii, 195 pages 9780820320366

Table of Contents:

Cover; Contents; Map; Preface; Preface to the 1999 Edition; Acknowledgments; The Fickle God; The Dogs of the Road; A Driver, a Checkpoint, an African Road; Waiting for the Marabout; Zinder Notes; Driving to Madness; Listening to Mariko; A Woman at the Wheel; An Ugly American; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z.