TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chilson,Peter
TI  - Riding the demon: on the road in West Africa 
SN  - 9780820348346
AV  - DT547.27 .C4557 2015eb
U1  - 916.604/329 21
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Athens, Georgia, London [England]
PB  - The University of Georgia Press
KW  - Chilson, Peter
KW  - Chilson, Peter.
KW  - Automobile travel
KW  - Niger
KW  - Africa, West
KW  - Voyages en automobile
KW  - Afrique occidentale
KW  - TRAVEL
KW  - Africa
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - West
KW  - fast
KW  - Travel
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Descriptions et voyages
KW  - West Africa
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
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