100 Roads to Nowhere

Some roads are built for speed. These were built for survival.

A bridge woven from grass and rebuilt every year. A highway laid across a frozen lake. A tunnel dug by hand beneath a besieged city. A cliff road in the Andes where, in the 1990s, hundreds died a year.

100 Roads to Nowhere takes you on the most dangerous journeys on Earth, from the Himalaya to the Sahara, from the Arctic to the Amazon. Each chapter tells the true story of one road: who built it, why it kills, who depends on it, and what it feels like to travel.

Inside you'll find:

• 100 true road stories in five parts: Cliffs in the Clouds, Water, Ice and Rope, Nothing for 500 Miles, Roads Built by Madmen, and Sacred, Forbidden and Far Beyond
• 200 original illustrations
• A Road File for every chapter with length, height, danger level and best season
• The highest and longest roads, and every road rated Extreme
• A traveller's survival guide and an index by country

Pilgrims, soldiers, prisoners and villagers all walk through these pages. Some roads connect people. Some divide them. All of them test the people who dare to use them.

Perfect for armchair travellers, adventure seekers, history lovers and anyone who has ever looked at a mountain and wondered what is on the other side.