Backcountry Mexico

Author : Bob Burleson,David H. Riskind
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 029279164X

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Backcountry Mexico by Bob Burleson,David H. Riskind Pdf

If you've always longed to strike out through the open country of northern Mexico armed with frying pan and bedroll, then this guide to the people, culture, folkways, landscape, and language of rural Mexico is for you. Out of twenty years of travel in backcountry Mexico, authors Bob Burleson and David Riskind have produced perhaps the most practical and accurate guide available for the unconventional tourist—the man or woman who prefers to get off the beaten path by foot, burro, mule, canoe, raft, or vehicle. Going well beyond the usual tourist guidebook entries, Backcountry Mexico will help you hire a guide and burro, navigate rural roads and trails, and communicate with the friendly and, sometimes, unfriendly folks you are likely to meet in a rural setting. In addition to English-Spanish and Spanish-English vocabulary lists containing both standard words and numerous terms relating to people, conditions, land, and situations not ordinarily encountered in tourists' lists, the authors have provided literally hundreds of helpful phrases and short conversations in easy-to-use sections arranged according to topics. Experienced unconventional travelers themselves, Burleson and Riskind have become experts in such subjects as "Eating and Staying Well on the Road, " "Camping in Mexico, " "Rural Mexican Village Life," and many more. Their experience, and the resultant wealth of language and cultural information contained in this guide, will help you to enjoy your trip ancd to better understand and appreciate the people and the land you visit. Throughout the book, the language examples are interwoven with beautifully illustrated anecdotes about culture and lifeways, so that the traveler is equipped with practical knowledge as well as appropriate behavior and speech. Fascinating in its treatment of a culture that is little known and unique in its coverage of rural-style Mexican Spanish, Backcountry Mexico will prove invaluable to anyone who ventures forth into northern Mexico.

Author : R. J. Secor
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0898867983

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Mexico's Volcanoes by R. J. Secor Pdf

This popular guide to climbing Mexico's volcanoes continues as the most complete book available in English. Updated for routes altered or closed due to volcanic activity.

Author : Don Adams
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781553695622

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Head for Mexico by Don Adams Pdf

The only comprehensive source of information on how to retire in Mexico on a budget, this guide is filled with priceless tips and endless humor.

Author : Carl Franz,Lorena Havens
Publisher : Rick Steves
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781612380490

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The People's Guide to Mexico by Carl Franz,Lorena Havens Pdf

Over the past 35 years, hundreds of thousands of readers have agreed: This is the classic guide to "living, traveling, and taking things as they come" in Mexico. Now in its updated 14th edition, The People's Guide to Mexico still offers the ideal combination of basic travel information, entertaining stories, and friendly guidance about everything from driving in Mexico City to hanging a hammock to bartering at the local mercado. Features include: • Advice on planning your trip, where to go, and how to get around once you're there • Practical tips to help you stay healthy and safe, deal with red tape, change money, send email, letters and packages, use the telephone, do laundry, order food, speak like a local, and more • Well-informed insight into Mexican culture, and hints for enjoying traditional fiestas and celebrations • The most complete information available on Mexican Internet resources, book and map reviews, and other info sources for travelers

Author : Michael D. Coe,Rex Koontz
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500771594

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Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs by Michael D. Coe,Rex Koontz Pdf

“Masterly. . . . The complexities of Mexico’s ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.” —Library Journal Michael D. Coe’s Mexico has long been recognized as the most readable and authoritative introduction to the region’s ancient civilizations. This companion to his best-selling The Maya has now been revised by Professor Coe and Rex Koontz. The seventh edition incorporates new findings in a number of disciplines. The solution to the long-standing puzzle of the origin of maize-farming has at last been solved, and spectacular new discoveries shed light on Mexico’s earliest civilization, the Olmec culture. At the great city of Teotihuacan, recent investigations in the earliest monumental pyramid indicate the antiquity of certain sacrificial practices and the symbolism of the pyramid. Expanded information on the Huastec region of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico is included, while discoveries in the sacred precinct of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan have led to a refined understanding of the history and symbolism of this hallowed area.

Author : Carlos B. Gil
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477136560

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We Became Mexican American by Carlos B. Gil Pdf

This is a story of Mexican family that arrived in America in the 1920s for the first time. And so, it is a tale of immigration, settlement and cultural adjustment, as well as generational progress. Carlos B. Gil, one of the American sons born to this family, places a magnifying glass on his ancestors who abandoned Mexico to arrive on the northern edge of Los Angeles, California. He narrates how his unprivileged relatives walked away from their homes in western Jalisco and northern Michoacán and traveled over several years to the U.S. border, crossing it at Nogales, Arizona, and then finally settling into the barrio of the city of San Fernando. Based on actual interviews, the author recounts how his parents met, married, and started a family on the eve of the Great Depression. With the aid of their testimonials, the author’s brothers and sisters help him tell of their growing up. They call to memory their father’s trials and tribulations as he tried to succeed in a new land, laboring as a common citrus worker, and how their mother helped shore him up as thousands of workers lost their jobs on account of the economic crash of 1929. Their story takes a look at how the family survived the Depression and a tragic accident, how they engaged in micro businesses as a survival tactic, and how the Gil children gradually became American, or Mexican American, as they entered young adulthood beginning in the 1940s. It also describes what life was like in their barrio. The author also comments briefly on the advancement of the second and third Gil generations and, in the Afterword, likewise offers a wide-ranging assessment of his family’s experience including observations about the challenges facing other Latinos today.

Author : Carl Franz
Publisher : Avalon Travel Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Travel
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023440620

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The People's Guide to RV Camping in Mexico by Carl Franz Pdf

Now in its updated 13th edition, The People's Guide to Mexico still offers the ideal combination of basic travel information, entertaining stories, and friendly guidance about everything from driving in Mexico City to hanging a hammock to bartering at the local mercado.Features include: - Advice on planning your trip, where to go, and how to get around once you're there- Practical tips to help you stay healthy and safe, deal with red tape, change money, send email, letters and packages, use the telephone, do laundry, order food, speak like a local, and more- Well-informed insight into Mexican culture, and hints for enjoying traditional fiestas and celebrations- The most complete information available on Mexican Internet resources, book and map reviews, and other info sources for travelers

Author : David Zurick
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0292798067

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Errant Journeys by David Zurick Pdf

By the year 2000, tourism will be the world’s single most important economic activity. Even now, there is hardly a place on earth, no matter how inaccessible, that has not been visited by some traveler seeking adventure, enlightenment, or simply change from the familiar world back home. In this pathfinding book, David Zurick explores the fastest-growing segment of the travel industry—adventure travel. He raises important questions about what constitutes the travel experience and shows how the modern adventure industry has commercialized the very notion of adventure by packaging it as tours. Drawing on two decades of personal travel, as well as the writings of others, Zurick unravels the paradox of adventure travel—that the very act of visiting remote places untouched by Western culture introduces that culture and begins irreversible changes. This first in-depth look at adventure travel opens new insights into the physical, philosophical, and spiritual attributes of the travel experience. Written in a lively style, the book is intended for everyone interested in travel and its effects on both travelers and the people and places they visit.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556038311221

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Socorro Resource Management Plan Revision by Anonim Pdf

Author : Oscar Martinez
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781781682975

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The Beast by Oscar Martinez Pdf

An Economist and Financial Times “Best Book of the Year” “Harrowing” true stories from two years of immersion reporting on the migrant trail from Chiapas to Arizona—an “honorable successor to enduring works like George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier” (New York Times) One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he garnered from two years spent traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central America and across the US border. More than a quarter of a million Central Americans make this increasingly dangerous journey each year, and each year as many as 20,000 of them are kidnapped. Martínez writes in powerful, unforgettable prose about clinging to the tops of freight trains; finding respite, work and hardship in shelters and brothels; and riding shotgun with the border patrol. Illustrated with stunning full-color photographs, The Beast is the first book to shed light on the harsh new reality of the migrant trail in the age of the narcotraficantes.

Author : Gary Bevington
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0292708122

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Maya for Travelers and Students by Gary Bevington Pdf

The Yucatan Peninsula draws many North American and European travelers each year to view the ruins of the pre-Columbian Classical Maya civilization and the abundant native flora and fauna. For these travelers, as well as armchair travelers and students, Gary Bevington has prepared the first general English-language introduction to Yucatec Maya, the native language of the people indigenous to the region. Written in nontechnical terms for learners who have a basic knowledge of simple Mexican Spanish, the book presents easily understood, practical information for anyone who would like to communicate with the Maya in their native language. In addition to covering the pronunciation and grammar of Maya, Bevington includes invaluable tips on learning indigenous languages "in the field." Most helpful are his discussions of the cultural and material worlds of the Maya, accompanied by essential words and expressions for common objects and experiences. A Maya-English-Spanish glossary with extensive usage examples and an English-Maya glossary conclude the book. Note: The supplemental audiocasette, Spoken Maya for Travelers and Students, is now available as a free download.

Author : Chico Fernandez
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780811762779

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Fly-Fishing for Redfish by Chico Fernandez Pdf

If you're looking to spend some time chasing one of the Atlantic's most popular sport fish, this book can help make it time well spent. Chico Fernández shares a lifetime of expertise and experiences fly fishing for redfish up and down the Atlantic Coast, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Mexico.

Author : David Alloway
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780292745926

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Desert Survival Skills by David Alloway Pdf

An “authoritative, comprehensive, well written, and entertaining” guide to staying alive in the desert from a Texas Parks and Wildlife veteran (Library Journal). Remote desert locations, including the Chihuahuan Desert of northern Mexico, southern Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, draw adventurers of all kinds, from the highly skilled and well prepared to urban cowboys who couldn’t lead themselves, much less a horse, to water. David Alloway’s goal in this book is to help all of them survive when circumstances beyond their control strand them in the desert environment. In simple, friendly language, enlivened with humor and stories from his own extensive experience, Alloway—a naturalist and search-and-rescue veteran who’s worked with the US Air Force on survival skills—here offers a practical, comprehensive handbook for both short-term and long-term survival in the Chihuahuan and other North American deserts.

Author : Fodor's
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781400019465

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Fodor's Mexico 2009 by Fodor's Pdf

Provides information on Mexican history and culture, and shares advice on sightseeing, shopping, and entertainment

Author : Mark P. Orbe
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506339245

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Constructing Co-Cultural Theory by Mark P. Orbe Pdf

This book presents a phenomenological framework for understanding the intricate relationship between culture, power and communication. Grounded in muted group and standpoint theory, this volume presents a theoretical framework which fosters a critically insightful vantage point into the complexities of culture, power and communication. Key coverage includes: a review and critique of the literature on co-cultural communication; a description of how the perspective of co-cultural group members were involved in each stage of theory development; and an explication of 25 co-cultural communication strategies and a model of six factors that influence strategy selection. The final chapter examines how co-cultural theory correlates with other work i