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In the Sierra Madre / Jeff Biggers

By:

Biggers, Jeff

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press , 2006Description: 184 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780252031014

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DDC classification:

LAS 972 BIG

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Summary: In the Sierra Madre is a groundbreaking and extraordinary memoir that chronicles the history of one of the most famous, yet unknown, regions in the world. Based on his one-year sojourn in a remote village among the Raramuri/Tarahumara in Mexico's renowned Copper Canyon, award-winning journalist Jeff Biggers offers a rare look into one of the most resilient indigenous cultures in the Americas, the exploits of Mexican mountaineers, and the parade of argonauts and accidental travellers that has journeyed into the Sierra Madre over centuries.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 972 BIG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		024538

Lost and found in the Sierra Madre -- The revenge of the Tarahumara -- A devilish sort of thing -- The treasure we long for.

In the Sierra Madre is a groundbreaking and extraordinary memoir that chronicles the history of one of the most famous, yet unknown, regions in the world. Based on his one-year sojourn in a remote village among the Raramuri/Tarahumara in Mexico's renowned Copper Canyon, award-winning journalist Jeff Biggers offers a rare look into one of the most resilient indigenous cultures in the Americas, the exploits of Mexican mountaineers, and the parade of argonauts and accidental travellers that has journeyed into the Sierra Madre over centuries.

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