The great travel writer Paul Theroux draws the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then goes deep into Hunterland, past the brutal headlines on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, levelless world.
Paul Theroux spends his life exploring the history and people who give life to the places they call home. Now, as the immigration debate boils over the world, Theroux sets out to explore a country key to understanding our current discourse: Mexico. To the south of the Arizona border, in the desert region of Sonora, he finds a place shining with vitality, yet both the northward and the rising discord from within are clearly marked by the American border patrol. With the same humanitarian sensibility as he did a job in the Deep South, Theroux stops talking with residents, goes to meet Zapotec Mill employees in the Highlands, and attends a Zapatista party meeting, people from all borders Equates with, those who live south of the border, even their families are brave. Travel to the north.
The author, praised for his "curiosity and affection for humanity" in all its forms (New York Times Book Review), On the Plain of Sneakus is an exploration of a field in conflict.
Paul Theroux spends his life exploring the history and people who give life to the places they call home. Now, as the immigration debate boils over the world, Theroux sets out to explore a country key to understanding our current discourse: Mexico. To the south of the Arizona border, in the desert region of Sonora, he finds a place shining with vitality, yet both the northward and the rising discord from within are clearly marked by the American border patrol. With the same humanitarian sensibility as he did a job in the Deep South, Theroux stops talking with residents, goes to meet Zapotec Mill employees in the Highlands, and attends a Zapatista party meeting, people from all borders Equates with, those who live south of the border, even their families are brave. Travel to the north.
The author, praised for his "curiosity and affection for humanity" in all its forms (New York Times Book Review), On the Plain of Sneakus is an exploration of a field in conflict.