Crossings

“An eye-opening road trip that spans continents to show how paved roads, seen as markers of civilisation, disrupt the natural world… This is a rare, beautifully written book, which tells us hard truths about roads, cars and life on Earth, but still manages to make us feel positive about the road ahead.” – Vijaysree Venkatraman - New Scientist“Wide-ranging and absorbing.… Brilliant.” – Bill McKibben“Goldfarb is perceptive about how roads tangle animals together with humans…Crossings is well-paced and vivid, an engaging account.” – Timothy Farrington - Wall Street Journal“Fascinating and compassionate…[Goldfarb] does an admirable job of detailing the ways that highways and freeways divide our cities along racial lines…It’s rare for a work so focused on wildlife conservation to also treat race.” – Emily Raboteau - The New York Times Book Review“A powerhouse of a book, a comprehensive and engaging study of the many ways that roads damage natural habitats.” – David Gessner - The Washington Post

Ben Goldfarb is the author of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. A recipient of fellowships from the Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Whiting Foundation, he lives in Colorado.