If a day should come when no point upon this earth is far away, so far as roads are concerned — what will become of humanity?
If a child born in the remotest village in the world could reach the city by a single train — the university, the hospital, and even another land — could geography still determine that child’s fate?
If goods could flow from one continent to another without depending upon a few narrow straits of the sea, what shape would the economy of the world take?
And if people could go to one another more easily, see one another and come to know one another at close quarters, would the distance between nations not grow less?
And at last, the question which holds all these questions within it:
Can all the roads of the earth be joined to one another?
This book is an attempt to answer that single question.