On the plain of snakes : a Mexican journey

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."--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780544866485
ISBN: 0544866487
ISBN: 9780544866478 (hardcover)
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Front Cover; Front Flap; Front Matter; Half Title; Other Books by This Author; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Prologue; Contents; Part One: Borderlands; To the Border: A Perfect Example of Thatness; A Gringo in His Dégringolade; "Don't Go Thar! You'll Dah!"; "There Is No Business Without Terror"; To TJ: "Aquí Empieza la Patria" (The Fatherland Begins Here); A Traverse of the Border (Una Travesía de la Frontera); Deportees and Those in Transit; Part Two: Mexico Mundo; Over the Border; First Communion in San Diego de la Unión; San Miguel de Allende: The Dark, the Light, and the Gringos
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.