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From the acclaimed author of Dispatches From Pluto and Deepest South of All, a harrowing travelogue into Mexico’s lawless Sierra Madre mountains. Twenty miles south of the Arizona-Mexico border, the rugged, beautiful Sierra Madre mountains begin their dramatic ascent.
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- March 04, 2008
Author. This is a non-fiction travelogue deep into the heart of Mexican narco country. Journalist Richard Grant’s borderline insane self-inflicted quest was to travel through the Sierra Madre mountains, some of the world’s toughest and most dangerous terrain, home to bandits, drug smugglers, opium cultivators, cowboys, folk healers, and ...
Mar 4, 2008 · God's Middle Finger. : From the acclaimed author of Dispatches From Pluto and Deepest South of All, a harrowing travelogue into Mexico’s lawless Sierra Madre mountains. Twenty miles south of the Arizona-Mexico border, the rugged, beautiful Sierra Madre mountains begin their dramatic ascent. Almost 900 miles long, the range climbs to nearly ...
Jan 1, 2008 · Grant decides that he wants to traverse the Sierra Madre Occidental, a mountain range just south of the border between Arizona & Mexico. The Sierra Madre goes south from there , for about 900 or so miles -- with canyons that are deeper than our Grand Canyon, with mines, caves, cliffs, potholed roads, little towns, drug farms and a variety of ...
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Mar 20, 2018 · Even though the author discusses just the Sierra Madre region, this book hits into hundreds of perfect examples of how the culture of all of Mexico works. Some readers, and some reviewers, will find it hard to accept that Grant's story is entirely plausible and represents the authentic, chaotic, lawless, smoke-and-mirrors, unique culture of the ...
- Richard Grant
Oct 2, 2008 · Nancy Perl, Seattle's celebrity librarian, has a method for deciding when to abandon a book, and for someone like me that's a serious act, akin to betray...
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