Mr. Ford, a clear and lively writer, probes and prods and provokes as he steers his way through this contested terrain.
He trudges through this unwelcoming terrain with the grim persistence of a soldier making his way home after a lost campaign.
Despite the almost impenetrable and jagged landscape, the engineers made paths that are easy to walk today, weaving and zigzagging through this overpowering terrain.
They wanted me to be a part of developing it, and helping guide them through this new terrain of storytelling," he says.
Guiding the economy through this treacherous terrain is putting the navigational skills of central bankers to the test.When the Bank of England's rate-setters met a month ago they were not short of worries, but those were at least familiar ones.
Mr. McLamore, a former Floridian with a big gold earring in his left ear and 18 years under his belt on the A train, has other responsibilities now, and no longer has to make two round trips through this vast terrain, the way he used to.
Thousands of years of human traffic on foot or horseback, and of freight in wheeled vehicles drawn by horse or oxen, as well as the passage of herds and flocks of livestock marshalled by drovers, have hollowed out the narrower places on the tracks, carving deep tunnels through this greensand terrain.
Bring clothing for all types of weather, as you are likely to experience them over the several months that you travel through this varied terrain.
Instead he notes, like many authors covering this terrain, that through the decades the White House has initiated or encouraged covert operations, often with a wink and a nod for deniability.
