On the Plain of Snakes (Record no. 19434)
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| fixed length control field | 01624nam a2200181 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780544866478 |
| 024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 1085577690 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | F1216.5 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 917.204 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Paul Theroux |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | On the Plain of Snakes |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 448 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind today's brutal headlines. Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the histories and peoples that give life to the places they call home. Now, as immigration debates boil around the world, Theroux has set out to explore a country key to understanding our current discourse: Mexico. Just south of the Arizona border, in the desert region of Sonora, he finds a place brimming with vitality, yet visibly marked by both the US Border Patrol looming to the north and mounting discord from within. With the same humanizing sensibility he employed in Deep South, Theroux stops to talk with residents, visits Zapotec mill workers in the highlands, and attends a Zapatista party meeting, communing with people of all stripes who remain south of the border even as their families brave the journey north. From the writer praised for his "curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms" (New York Times Book Review), On the Plain of Snakes is an exploration of a region in conflict. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Mexico |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Geography /Travel |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 07/17/2024 | MEX 972.08 THER | 68647 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |