Books
by James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello
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The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London |
This is travelling - but alas not hopefully. The authors follow the pipeline above ground (and sometimes by tanker) from Baku to London. All the while, we get the local backstory and especially the politics. The ultimate tragedy is that the natural resources from poor countries only exacerbates the wealth gap between them and richer ones at the other end of the 'road'. BP is somewhat harshly judged. But their fingers were everywhere. Messy stuff!
(Jeremy Miller - bwl 86 Autumn 2017) |
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