On the Plain of Snakes

Release on 2019-10-08 | by Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the histories and peoples that give life to the places they call home.

Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780544866485
Category: Travel
Page: 464
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On the Plain of Snakes

The legendary travel writer 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. Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the histories and peoples that give life to the places they call home. Now, as immigration debates boil around the world, Theroux has 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 to the north and mounting discord from within. With the same humanizing sensibility he employed in Deep South, Theroux stops to talk with residents, visits Zapotec mill workers in the highlands, and attends a Zapatista party meeting, communing with people of all stripes who remain south of the border even as family members brave the journey north. From the writer praised for his “curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms” (New York Times Book Review), On the Plain of Snakes is an exploration of a region in conflict.

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Pages: 448

Mexico

Authors: Paul Theroux

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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-10 - Publisher: Hamish Hamilton

Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the impoverished Mexican side. It is a fascinating site of tension, now more than ever, as the town fills with hopeful border

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Pages: 448

On the Plain of Snakes

Authors: Paul Theroux

Categories: Travel

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-10 - Publisher: Penguin UK

WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO TRAVEL WRITING 2020 The master of contemporary travel writing, Paul Theroux, immerses himself in the beautiful and troubled heart of modern Mexico Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty-foot steel fence

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Pages: 200

Our Reptiles and Batrachians

Authors: Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

Categories: Amphibians

Type: BOOK - Published: 1893 - Publisher:

Books about Our Reptiles and Batrachians

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Pages: 304

The New Abject

Authors: Ramsey Campbell, David Constantine, Margaret Drabble, Saleem Haddad, Mark Haddon, Matthew Holness, Adam Marek, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Mike Nelson, Paul Theroux, Lara Williams, Gerard Woodward, Sarah Schofield, Christine Poulson, Meave Haughey, Gaia Holmes, Karen Featherstone, Alan Beard, Bernardine Bishop

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-29 - Publisher: Comma Press

SOMETHING HAS FALLEN AWAY. We have lost a part of ourselves, our history, what we once were. That something, when we encounter it again, look it straight in the eyes, disgusts us, makes us retch. This is the horror of the abject. Following the success of Comma’s award-winning New Uncanny

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