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Better World Books generates funding for literacy charities through the sales of second-hand books. Our current partner charities in the UK are READ International, the National Literacy Trust, Room to Read. (Registered Charities no. 1128534, no. 1116260 and no. 1125803 and the National Adult Literacy Agency. Much of our stock is ex-library due to our close relationships with UK libraries. We offer a service that helps them keep their unwanted books out of landfill. All ex-library books will be marked as such in their individual listings. 99% of orders are dispatched within 24 hours and we offer a 100% money back guarantee if you are not completely satisfied.
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From the publisher
James Marriott is an artist, naturalist, activist and co-author of The Next Gulf: London, Washington and the Oil Conflict in Nigeria.
Based in Cairo, Mika Minio-Paluello is a sailor, beekeeper and campaigner for social movements resisting oil companies. Both work for Platform, a London-based arts, human rights and environmental justice organisation (www.platformlondon.org).
Media reviews
"An elegantly written travel book about a pipeline … A distinctive blend of travelogue, reportage and history."—Financial Times
"Inspirational in the proper sense."—Guardian
"A lovingly crafted narrative, a rich tapestry of first-hand anecdote and historical reconstruction."—Independent
"Elegant … verges on the psychogeographical … The human stories behind the pipeline’s construction."—Literary Review
"Opens the lid on the often-shady energy economy, weaving absorbing travel reportage into powerful investigative journalism."—Time Out Book of the Week
"Seamlessly weaves an engaging personal story into the current geopolitics of oil aggression and the volatile recent history of the region."—Red Pepper
"Part-travelogue, part-reportage, The Oil Road is a powerful … account of how a valuable natural resource can ruin the lives of ordinary people … This is no dry historiography."—Sunday Business Post
"Beautifully written as well as formidably well-informed … A pleasure to read."—Neal Ascherson, Black Sea
"The Oil Road is an inspiring act of political cartography. It makes chastisingly visible the means by which we blithely consume ‘the geology of elsewhere.’"—Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways
"Well researched and written with empathy, integrity and imagination. It is timely and much needed." Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love
"This book is so masterful, so authortatively researched and so elegantly written, that it suceeds in distilling a complex and changing ‘Carbon Web’ of engineering companies, legal firms, and financiers, into an intimate and engaging personal story."—Suzi Gablik, Has Modernism Failed
About the author
James Marriott is an artist, naturalist, activist and co-author of "The Next Gulf: London, Washington and the Oil Conflict in Nigeria."
Based in Cairo, Mika Minio-Paluello is a sailor, beekeeper and campaigner for social movements resisting oil companies. Both work for Platform, a London-based arts, human rights and environmental justice organisation (www.platformlondon.org).
