British Columbia by the Road: Car Culture and the Making of a Modern Landscape

by Ben Bradley

Book Overview

In British Columbia by the Road, Ben Bradley takes readers on an unprecedented journey through the history of roads, highways, and motoring in British Columbia's Interior, a remote landscape composed of plateaus and interlocking valleys, soaring mountains and treacherous passes. Challenging the idea that the automobile offered travelers the freedom of the road and a view of unadulterated nature, Bradley shows that boosters, businessmen,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774834196
• ISBN13: 9780774834193
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: UBC Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.