Book description
* A third of the world's people are in the midst of the largest
population move in human history, as the last of the word's
rural populations abandons agriculture and moves to the urban areas of
the developing world and of the wealthy West.
*Both a groundbreaking work of reportage and an exciting, vivid
travelogue, Arrival City sees award-winning journalist Doug
Saunders offering a detailed tour of the key points in the Great
Migration, and considers the actions that have turned this enormous
population shift into either a success or a violent failure.
Doug Saunders
is the European Bureau Chief of the Globe and Mail, Canada's largest
and most respected national daily newspaper, and the author of a popular
and award-winning weekly column devoted to the intellectual ideas and
social developments behind the news.
An experienced foreign-affairs
writer, he has won the Canadian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize on
four occasions
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