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On the plain of snakes : a Mexican journey
- Title
- On the plain of snakes : a Mexican journey / Paul Theroux.
- Author
- Theroux, Paul
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- 436 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux fearlessly drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind today's brutal headlines."--
- As immigration debates boil around the world, Theroux set out to explore a country key to understanding our current discourse: Mexico. Just south of the Arizona border, in the desert region of Sonora, he finds a place brimming with vitality, yet visibly marked by both the US Border Patrol looming to the north and mounting discord from within. He spent time communing with people of all stripes who remain south of the border even as their families brave the journey north. In doing so Theroux uncovers the rich, layered world behind today's brutal headlines. -- adapted from jacket
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Travel writing.
- Contents
- Part one: Borderlands -- Part two: Mexico mundo -- Part three: Oaxaca, the inframundo -- Part four: The road to Nueva Maravilla -- Part five: The way back.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-542
- ISBN
- 9780544866478
- 0544866479
- LCCN
- 2019004920
- 40029387457
- OCLC
- 1080247472
- Author
- Theroux, Paul, author.
- Title
- On the plain of snakes : a Mexican journey / Paul Theroux.
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Theroux, Paul, author. On the plain of snakes Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019] 9780544866485 (DLC) 2019005663
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029387457
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-542