How the World Travels

The book surveys the history and variety of human transport, tracing vehicles from ancient sledges and carts through coaching eras to modern trains, automobiles, and early aircraft. It catalogs regional and cultural conveyances such as palanquins, bullock and camel carts, rickshaws, sledges, and river and mountain craft, and describes travel across deserts, forests, ice, and snow. Illustrated chapters compare traditional methods still in use with technological innovations and conclude with thoughts on how future developments might change travel.