Arrival City
How the Largest Migration in History is Reshaping Our World
Published on 1. September 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-09-952239-3 (ISBN)
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.
*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.
Reviews / Votes
One of the year's most engaging and important works of non-fiction * The Independent * Provocative, disturbing, and exhilarating book ... a delight for thoughtful readers. Indeed, it is essential. Migration is reshaping the world and, as Saunders demonstrates, the choices we make today will determine whether it brings prosperity or catastrophe tomorrow -- Dan Gardner, author of Risk: the Science and Politics of Fear An important new book [that] engages while remaining serious. His evocative descriptions transform a complex, serious subject into a page-turning read * Literary Review * Saunders's approach is through anecdotes and vignettes, but he has done his legwork so they cumulate into a persuasive whole ... [a] highly readable book * FT *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Cornerstone
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
273 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-952239-3 (9780099522393)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
09/2010
1st Edition
Cornerstone Digital
€12.99
Available for download
Person
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.