Reader's Companion to Mexico

Name: Reader's Companion to Mexico
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ISBN: 9780151759620

ISBN-10: 0151759626

ISBN-13: 9780151759620

Edition: N/A

Authors: Alan Ryan

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A unique tour of Mexico with such writers as D. H. Lawrence, Paul Theroux, Graham Greene, Katherine Anne Porter, Langston Hughes, and John Steinbeck, among many others, as guides. A richer perspective on this complex country than that found in standard guidebooks. Introduction by the Editor.

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Publisher: Harcourt Trade Publishers
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English

Introduction
Paseo de la Reforma, 1888	p. 3
The Fiesta of Guadalupe, 1919	p. 9
D. H. Lawrence at his first bullfight, 1923	p. 15
Toluca market, 1935	p. 27
Bohemian life, 1934-1935	p. 37
With Diego Rivera at San Angel, 1930s	p. 49
Diversions and excursions, 1937-1940	p. 66
The other side of Paseo de la Reforma, 1941	p. 79
Living on the Alameda, ca. 1950	p. 99
The Revolution comes to Cuernavaca, 1910	p. 123
Taxco, 1930s	p. 144
Cuernavaca, Taxco, Acapulco, ca. 1937	p. 169
Cuernavaca, Taxco, Acapulco, 1950s	p. 188
Cuernavaca, Taxco, Acapulco, 1960s	p. 201
Puebla and Misantla, ca. 1906	p. 213
Market day in Oaxaca, 1924	p. 221
Oaxaca, 1949	p. 230
Palenque, 1938	p. 246
Palenque, 1985	p. 265
The Temple of the Warriors, Chicken Itza, 1925	p. 278
Merida and Chichen Itza, 1971	p. 292
Uruapan and Paricutin	p. 305
An American bride in Monterrey, 1930s	p. 319
Guaymas, 1940s	p. 335
Nuevo Laredo, 1978	p. 343
Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, 1940	p. 354
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