Tracks Across Continents: Roads That Reshaped the World

Tracks Across Continents is a global journey through the forgotten, bypassed, and crumbling arteries that once carried the lifeblood of empires, revolutions, and wanderers. From America's Dust Bowl highways and Japan's sacred mountain switchbacks to the ghost viaducts of Spain and the frost-heaved curves of the Pamir Highway, this book traces how roads-both functional and symbolic-reveal the human urge to move, to connect, and to remember.

Through a mix of archival research and road-tested exploration, the author uncovers what lies beneath the modern motorway: stone milestones eroded by time, propaganda etched into concrete, and the echoes of migration, trade, and rebellion embedded in crumbling asphalt. Each chapter unpacks how once-revolutionary engineering marvels have been left to vanish under moss, or reborn as heritage trails and memoryscapes.

Equal parts cultural history, travelogue, and elegy, Tracks Across Continents invites readers to slow down and detour-to see not just where a road leads, but what it leaves behind.