Książka So Far from God Patrick Marnham

So Far from God

Journey to Central America

Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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A portrayal of the troubled countries of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, as the author...

Informacje o książce

Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
Data wydania
1996
strony
320
EAN
9780747524335
ISBN
0747524335
Enbook ID
04672610
Waga
294
Wymiary
159 x 110 x 26

Pełny opis

A portrayal of the troubled countries of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, as the author travels through them by train and bus. The author shows daily lives lived against a backdrop of continued and seemingly endless political friction and conflicts, in places that exhibit the contradictions inherent in an area of which Porfirio Diaz said: "Poor Mexico! So far from God, so close to the United States". It is an observation that serves as an epigraph to the book, as a means of showing how fervent Catholicism can live side by side with extreme violence, how people can show alternating friendliness and suspicion towards strangers, and how the attitudes with which Central America and the United States regard one another can be a mixture of both fear and longing.

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