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On the Plain of Snakes - A Mexican Road Trip (Paperback)
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On the Plain of Snakes - A Mexican Road Trip (Paperback)
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List price R265
Loot Price R212
Discovery Miles 2 120
You Save R53 (20%)
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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 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 crossers and the
deportees who have been caught and brought back. And it is here
that Paul Theroux will begin his journey into the culturally rich
but troubled heart of modern Mexico. Moving through the deserts
just south of the Arizona border, Theroux finds a place brimming
with charm, yet visibly marked by both the US border patrol looming
to the north and mounting discord from within. Attending local
language and culinary schools, driving through the country and
meeting its people, Paul Theroux gets under the skin of Mexico.
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 urgent and mesmerising exploration of a
region in conflict. Praise for Paul Theroux: 'As cool as Maugham...
as observant, intuitive, wry, inventive and eloquent as Graham
Greene' Sunday Times 'Theroux's work remains the standard by which
other travel writing must be judged' Observer 'The world's most
perceptive travel writer' Daily Mail 'One of the most accomplished
and worldly-wise writers of his generation' The Times
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