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WHERE THE STRANGE ROADS GO DOWN
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| By: |
Mary Del Villar, Fred Del Villar, Susan Hardy Aiken (Foreword) |
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Paperback |
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£26.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0816535736 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780816535736 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
23 May, 2017 |
| Series: |
Century Collection |
| Pages: |
264 |
| Description: |
Mary and Fred del Villar's desire to travel "the strange roads" of rural Mexico led to a 750-mile walk from Lake Patzcuaro to the Pacific Ocean in 1951. For three months they endured sun, scorpions, floods, and hunger, but also found warm friendship everywhere they went. |
| Synopsis: |
"Strange Roads is a small gem of travel literature in the tradition of works by John Van Dyke, Carl Lumholtz, Charles Lummus, Mary Austin, Edward Hoagland, and Bruce Chatwin. But for all its absorbing detail about topography, flora, and fauna, its keen observations of character, and its vivid re-creation of the sense of place, it is much more than a travel memoir. For on every page one senses the strength, character, and distinctive perspective of Mary del Villar herself. An uncommon woman by any standards, she seems all the more remarkable when one recalls the profoundly reactionary gender ideologies that prevailed in the postwar era in which she lived and wrote. Like other great female wanderers, she transcended the confining notions of woman her society would have imposed on her, living her life according to the dictates of her own intrepid spirit." -from the foreword by Susan Hardy Aiken The University of Arizona Press's Century Collection employs the latest in digital technology to make previously out-of-print books from our notable backlist available once again.Enriching historical and cultural experiences for readers, this collection offers these volumes unaltered from their original publication and in affordable digital or paperback formats. |
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US |
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University of Arizona Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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