Author: Maribeth Mellin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780762702541
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Provides the best information and guidance for exploring the country of Mexico.
Mexico - Traveler's Companion
Author: Maribeth Mellin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780762702541
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Provides the best information and guidance for exploring the country of Mexico.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780762702541
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Provides the best information and guidance for exploring the country of Mexico.
Traveler's Mexico Companion
Author: Maribeth Mellin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781840060652
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781840060652
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Mexico
Author: C. M. Mayo
Publisher: Traveler's Literary Companions
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A panoramic vision of Mexico is offered by some of Mexico's finest contemporary writers of fiction and literary prose. Shattering stereotypes, these works provide a rollicking journey from the Pacific to the Gulf, from Yucatan to border slums, from humble ranchos to a fabulous mountaintop castle.
Publisher: Traveler's Literary Companions
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A panoramic vision of Mexico is offered by some of Mexico's finest contemporary writers of fiction and literary prose. Shattering stereotypes, these works provide a rollicking journey from the Pacific to the Gulf, from Yucatan to border slums, from humble ranchos to a fabulous mountaintop castle.
The Reader's Companion to Mexico
Author: Alan Ryan
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
D.H. Lawrence, Paul Theroux, Graham Greene, Langston Hughes, Katherine Anne Porter, Paul Bowles, and John Steinbeck are among the writers whose eyewitness accounts are collected in this remarkable literary guided tour of Mexico.
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
D.H. Lawrence, Paul Theroux, Graham Greene, Langston Hughes, Katherine Anne Porter, Paul Bowles, and John Steinbeck are among the writers whose eyewitness accounts are collected in this remarkable literary guided tour of Mexico.
James' Travelers Companion
Author: Uriah Pierson James
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
First Stop in the New World
Author: David Lida
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440631646
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The definitive book on Mexico City: a vibrant, seductive, and paradoxical metropolis-the second-biggest city in the world, and a vision of our urban future. First Stop in the New World is a street-level panorama of Mexico City, the largest metropolis in the western hemisphere and the cultural capital of the Spanish-speaking world. Journalist David Lida expertly captures the kaleidoscopic nature of life in a city defined by pleasure and danger, ecstatic joy and appalling tragedy-hanging in limbo between the developed and underdeveloped worlds. With this literary-journalist account, he establishes himself as the ultimate chronicler of this bustling megalopolis at a key moment in its-and our-history.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440631646
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The definitive book on Mexico City: a vibrant, seductive, and paradoxical metropolis-the second-biggest city in the world, and a vision of our urban future. First Stop in the New World is a street-level panorama of Mexico City, the largest metropolis in the western hemisphere and the cultural capital of the Spanish-speaking world. Journalist David Lida expertly captures the kaleidoscopic nature of life in a city defined by pleasure and danger, ecstatic joy and appalling tragedy-hanging in limbo between the developed and underdeveloped worlds. With this literary-journalist account, he establishes himself as the ultimate chronicler of this bustling megalopolis at a key moment in its-and our-history.
Chile
Author: Katherine Silver
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Traverse Chile's diverse literary and geographic landscape with its best contemporary writers. Arranged geographically, these 20 stories-many of which appear in English for the first time-guide the reader through Chile's unique regions. Let Ariel Dorfman take you to Santiago with a prodigal son, discovering his own country for the first time; travel to the remote south with Enrique Valdes; and enjoy the charms of Valparaiso with Pablo Neruda, one of Chile's two Nobel Prize winners. With the return of democracy to Chile, large numbers of Americans and Chilean expatriates are rediscovering the rich cultural allure of Chile, as well as the draw of its unrivaled ecodiversity. Chile is an excellent literary guide for globetrotters and armchair travelers alike-for those new to Chile as well as those familiar with its charms. Katherine Silver is a freelance translator, editor, teacher and writer who has lived in Chile frequently and for prolonged periods from 1979 to the present. She has translated the Il Postino by Antonio Skarmeta, as well as the works of Elena Poniatowska, Jose Emilio Pacheco and Martin Adan. She is currently translating Pedro Lemebel's I Tremble Toreador for Grove/Atlantic Press.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Traverse Chile's diverse literary and geographic landscape with its best contemporary writers. Arranged geographically, these 20 stories-many of which appear in English for the first time-guide the reader through Chile's unique regions. Let Ariel Dorfman take you to Santiago with a prodigal son, discovering his own country for the first time; travel to the remote south with Enrique Valdes; and enjoy the charms of Valparaiso with Pablo Neruda, one of Chile's two Nobel Prize winners. With the return of democracy to Chile, large numbers of Americans and Chilean expatriates are rediscovering the rich cultural allure of Chile, as well as the draw of its unrivaled ecodiversity. Chile is an excellent literary guide for globetrotters and armchair travelers alike-for those new to Chile as well as those familiar with its charms. Katherine Silver is a freelance translator, editor, teacher and writer who has lived in Chile frequently and for prolonged periods from 1979 to the present. She has translated the Il Postino by Antonio Skarmeta, as well as the works of Elena Poniatowska, Jose Emilio Pacheco and Martin Adan. She is currently translating Pedro Lemebel's I Tremble Toreador for Grove/Atlantic Press.
James' Travelers Companion
James's Traveler's Companion. Being a Complete Guide Through the Western States, to the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific
Author: Stephen L. Massey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Costa Rica
Author: Barbara Ras
Publisher: Traveler's Literary Companions
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A collection of 26 remarkable stories by Costa Rican writers--most of which is available in English for the first time. Whether searching for something relevant and entertaining to read on Costa Rica's idyllic beaches or looking for Latin American enchantment back home, this is a fiction reader's cultural guidebook to the country. 2-page map.
Publisher: Traveler's Literary Companions
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A collection of 26 remarkable stories by Costa Rican writers--most of which is available in English for the first time. Whether searching for something relevant and entertaining to read on Costa Rica's idyllic beaches or looking for Latin American enchantment back home, this is a fiction reader's cultural guidebook to the country. 2-page map.