Abrahm Lustgarten

A vivid account of China's unstoppable quest to build a railway into Tibet, and its obsession to transform its land and its people. In the summer of 2006, the Chinese government fulfilled a fifty-year plan to build a railway into Tibet. Since Mao Zedong first envisioned it, the line had grown into an imperative, a critical component of China's breakneck expansion and the final maneuver in strengthening China's grip over this remote and often mystical...

"An overview of how climate change will reshape the United States, with an emphasis on climate migration"--