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A groundbreaking current affairs book documenting the largest population move in human history, as a third of the world´s people migrate into cities, rupturing societies across the globe.

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A third of the world´s people are in the midst of the largest population move in human history, as the last of the word´s rural populations abandons agriculture and moves to the urban areas of the developing world and of the wealthy West.

Both a groundbreaking work of reportage and an exciting, vivid travelogue, Arrival City sees award-winning journalist Doug Saunders offering a detailed tour of the key points in the Great Migration, and considers the actions that have turned this enormous population shift into either a success or a violent failure.

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"One of the year´s most engaging and important works of non-fiction" The Independent

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Doug Saunders, Jahrgang 1967, ist kanadisch-britischer Autor und Journalist. Für seine Reportagen und Kolumnen wurde er bislang vier Mal mit dem National Newspaper Award ausgezeichnet, dem kanadischen Pendant des Pulitzers. Saunders leitet derzeit das Europabüro der zweitgrößten kanadischen Tageszeitung Globe and Mail in London.

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