First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

I: The Americas; 1: Alaska; 2: Canada: Transcontinental Highways; 3: The St Lawrence Seaway; 4: The Mississippi-Missouri; 5: The Rio Grande; 6: The Panama Canal; 7: The Amazon; 8: The Paraná; II: Europe; 9: The English Channel and the North Sea; 10: The Channel Tunnel; 11: The Rhine; 12: The Danube; 13: The Mediterranean; 14: The Dardanelles and the Black Sea; III: Africa; 15: The Nile; 16: The Niger River; 17: Ethiopia: No Exit; 18: The Congo River; 19: The Zambezi; 20: The TANZAM Railway; 21: Mozambique: Controller of Strategic Highways; 22: The Beira Corridor; 23: The Maputo Corridor and the Trans-Kalahari Highway; 24: The Benguela Railway; 25: The BOTZAM Road; 26: The South African Network; IV: The Middle East; 27: The Suez Canal; 28: The River Jordan; 29: The Tigris-Euphrates River System; 30: The Gulf; V: Russia/Europe/Asia; 31: The Volga; 32: The Trans-Siberian Railway; 33: Russia: Three Giant Rivers, A Future Resource; VI: South Asia; 34: The Khyber Pass; 35: The Indus; 36: The Ganges-Brahmaputra; VII: South-East Asia; 37: The Mekong; 38: Singapore: Strategic City-State; VIII: China; 39: The Yangtze (Chang Jiang); 40: The Yellow River (Huang He); 41: The Silk Road; 42: The Great Wall of China; IX: The World; 43: Landlocked Countries; 44: The International Airways System; 45: The International Drugs Trade