Hence this book, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, talks about a road trip from Tashkent to Karakalpakstan, where millions of lives have been destroyed by the slow drying up of the sea.

Jack Kerouac's On the Road was an influential book in the 1960s.

It's been 15 years since Bill Gates published the Road Ahead, a book packed with the Microsoft founder's predictions about the future.