Sliced Iguana

Travels in Unknown Mexico

Isabella Tree (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2001
Hamish Hamilton Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-241-14051-2 (ISBN)

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The author visits some of the most intriguing regions of Mexico, from Juchitan, where mothers encourage their sons to be homosexual to avoid paying dowries, to Atotonilco, scene of Easter humiliations, and to the Sierra Madre Occidental - home of the Peyote - using Huichol Indians.

A journey into the heart of Mexico, with all its conflicting cultures and its distinctive clash of the old and the new. The unifying themes of the book and Mexico's universal loves and hates, its underlying religious faith and superstition, its obsession with death and disguise, feelings of isolation and community, sense of outrage and betryal is its passion for fantasy, idolatry and fiesta, and its love of the land. Isabella visits some of the most intriguing regions of Mexico, from Juchitan, where mothers encourage their sons to be homosexual to avoid paying dowries, to Atotonilco, scene of Easter humiliations and to the Sierra Madre Occidental - home of the Peyote.

Isabella Tree was born in 1964 and lives in West Sussex. Her last book, ISLANDS IN THE CLOUDS: Travels in the Highlands of New Guinea, was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Award. She is also the author of THE RULING PASSION OF JOHN GOULD and was the overall winner of the Travelex Travel Writer's Award in 1999.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.6.2001
Zusatzinfo	maps
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 242 mm
Gewicht	644 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
ISBN-10	0-241-14051-X / 024114051X
ISBN-13	978-0-241-14051-2 / 9780241140512
Zustand	Neuware