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Author : Will Wyatt
Publisher : Harvest Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : UCAL:B4954662
Author : Jeff Biggers
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780252056970
A stunning history of legendary treasure seekers and enigmatic natives in Mexico's Copper Canyon The Sierra Madre--no other mountain range in the world possesses such a ring of intrigue. In the Sierra Madre is a groundbreaking and extraordinary memoir that chronicles the astonishing history of one of the most famous, yet unknown, regions in the world. Based on his one-year sojourn among the Raramuri/Tarahumara, award-winning journalist Jeff Biggers offers a rare look into the ways of the most resilient indigenous culture in the Americas, the exploits of Mexican mountaineers, and the fascinating parade of argonauts and accidental travelers that has journeyed into the Sierra Madre over centuries. From African explorers, Bohemian friars, Confederate and Irish war deserters, French poets, Boer and Russian commandos, Apache and Mennonite communities, bewildered archaeologists, addled writers, and legendary characters including Antonin Artaud, B. Traven, Sergei Eisenstein, George Patton, Geronimo, and Pancho Villa, Biggers uncovers the remarkable treasures of the Sierra Madre.
Author : B. Traven
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374722609
A CULT MASTERPIECE—THE ADVENTURE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED JOHN HUSTON'S CLASSIC FILM, BY THE ELUSIVE AUTHOR WHO WAS A MODEL FOR THE HERO OF ROBERTO BOLAÑO'S 2666. Little is known for certain about B. Traven. Evidence suggests that he was born Otto Feige in Schlewsig-Holstein and that he escaped a death sentence for his involvement with the anarchist underground in Bavaria. Traven spent most of his adult life in Mexico, where, under various names, he wrote several bestsellers and was an outspoken defender of the rights of Mexico's indigenous people. First published in 1935, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is Traven's most famous and enduring work, the dark, savagely ironic, and riveting story of three down-and-out Americans hunting for gold in Sonora.
Author : B. Traven
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0809001608
Two hard-luck drifters and a grizzled prospector seek gold in the mountains in Mexico. They start off as friends, but after they discover the lode the greed and paranoia set in.
Author : Robert Rossen,B. Traven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:174303738
Author : Richard Grant
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780748111749
There are many ways to die in the Sierra Madre, a notorious nine-hundred-mile mountain range in northern Mexico where AK-47s are fetish objects, the law is almost non-existent and power lies in the hands of brutal drug mafias. Thousands of tons of opium and marijuana are produced there every year. Richard Grant thought it would be a good idea to travel the length of the Sierra Madre and write a book about it. He was warned before he left that he would be killed. But driven by what he calls 'an unfortunate fascination' for this mysterious region, Grant sets off anyway. In a remarkable piece of investigative writing, he evokes a sinister, surreal landscape of lonely mesas, canyons sometimes deeper than the Grand Canyon, hostile villages and an outlaw culture where homicide is the most common cause of death and grandmothers sell cocaine. Finally his luck runs out and he finds himself fleeing for his life, pursued by men who would murder a stranger in their territory 'to please the trigger finger'.
Author : Traven
Publisher : Signet
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1968-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 045103435X
Author : Richard Grant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416534402
A narrative portrait of the Sierra Madre describes the author's numerous journeys into its ungoverned regions, where he consulted with a folk healer and witnessed local violence and lawlessness that eventually threatened his own survival. Original. 75,000 first printing.
Author : B. Traven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:441065175
Author : Bradford B. Davidson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385337473
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Los Angeles County (Calif.)
ISBN : UCSD:31822031030281
Author : Eugene H. Boudreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : California
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018577308
Author : James G. Carrier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000184433
For almost twenty years, the 'Free Market' has been a central feature of public debate in the West, Eastern Europe and elsewhere. In the name of the Market and its supposed benefits, governments and international agencies have imposed massive changes on peoples' lives. Curiously, scholars have paid little attention to the ways that the idea of the Market is invoked, to what it might mean and how it is being used. This book helps correct that state of affairs. Focusing on the United States, where the Market model is strongest, authors analyze portrayals of the Market, its values and the people within it, as a way of teasing out its assumptions and contradictions. They also describe extensions and practical applications of the Market model in policy-making in the United States and in explaining how firms work, show its political strengths and conceptual limitations. In bringing rigor and sustained critical analysis to a topic of growing global significance, this truly interdisciplinary study represents a coherent and incisive contribution to anthropology, sociology, politics, history and economics, as it challenges these disciplines to come to grips with one of the most potent cultural symbols of postmodernity.
Author : Loren D. Estleman
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780806147741
A master practitioner’s view of his craft, this classic survey of the fiction of the American West is part literary history, part criticism, and entertaining throughout. The first edition of The Wister Trace was published in 1987, when Larry McMurtry had just reinvented himself as a writer of Westerns and Cormac McCarthy’s career had not yet taken off. Loren D. Estleman’s long-overdue update connects these new masters with older writers, assesses the genre’s past, present, and future, and takes account of the renaissance of western movies, as well. Estleman’s title indicates the importance he assigns Owen Wister’s 1902 classic, The Virginian. Wister was not the first writer of Westerns, but he defined the genre, contrasting chivalry with the lawlessness of the border and introducing such lines as “When you call me that, smile!” Estleman tips his hat to Wister’s predecessors, among them Ned Buntline, the inventor of the dime novel, and Buffalo Bill. His assessments of Wister’s successors—Zane Grey, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, and Louis L’Amour, to name but three—soon make clear the impossibility of differentiating great western writing from great American writing. Especially important in this new edition is the attention to women writers. The author devotes a chapter each to Dorothy Johnson—author of “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”—and Annie Proulx, whose Wyoming stories include “Brokeback Mountain.” In his discussion of movies, Estleman includes a list of film adaptations that will guide readers to movies, and moviegoers to books. An appendix draws readers’ attention to authors not covered elsewhere in the volume—some of them old masters like Bret Harte and Jack London, but many of them fascinating outliers ranging from Clifford Irving to Joe R. Lansdale.
Author : David Wood,Sean Ellis
Publisher : Adrenaline Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
On the Texas border, a brutal massacre threatens to ignite a firestorm of violence that will destabilize an already fragile Mexican government and trigger an international crisis that knows no boundaries. The only clue, a cryptic message: The time for Destiny has arrived! Tam Broderick, leader of an elite CIA task force, code-name: Myrmidon, knows that the Dominion—a quasi-religious extremist group—is behind the attacks; now it’s up to her and her team to find out what the Dominion’s true goals are, and stop them dead in their tracks. From the authors of the bestselling Dane Maddock Adventures and Dane and Bones Origins comes a new series set in the Maddock Universe. Join CIA agent Tamara “Tam” Broderick and her team as they continue their struggle to foil the power of the Dominion. Action, adventure, and thrills abound in The Myrmidon Files