Download or read book Mexican Days written by Tony Cohan and published by Broadway. This book was released on 2006 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel writer Tony Cohan recounts his experiences in the small Mexican town of San Miguel de Allende as it is threatened by the invasion of tourists and a Hollywood movie crew.
Download or read book Mexican Days written by Tony Cohan and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Cohan’s On Mexican Time, his chronicle of discovering a new life in the small Mexican mountain town of San Miguel de Allende, has beguiled readers and become a travel classic. Now, in Mexican Days, point of arrival becomes point of departure as—faced with the invasion of the town by tourists and an entire Hollywood movie crew, a magazine editor’s irresistible invitation, and his own incurable wanderlust—Cohan undertakes a richer, wider exploration of the country he has settled in. Told with the intimate, sensuous insight and broad sweep that captivated readers of On Mexican Time, Mexican Days is set against a changing world as Cohan encounters surprise and adventure in a Mexico both old and new: among the misty mountains and coastal Caribbean towns of Veracruz; the ruins and resorts of Yucatán; the stirring indigenous world of Chiapas; the markets and galleries of Oaxaca; the teeming labyrinth of Mexico City; the remote Sierra Gorda mountains; the haunted city of Guanajuato; and the evocative Mayan ruins of Palenque. Along the way he encounters expatriates and artists, shady operatives and surrealists, and figures from his past. More than an immensely pleasurable and entertaining travel narrative by one of the most vivid, compelling travel voices to emerge in recent years, Mexican Days is both a celebration of the joys and revelations to be found in this inexhaustibly interesting country and a searching investigation of the Mexican landscape and the grip it is coming to have in the North American imagination.
Download or read book Fiesta written by Chloë Sayer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores a variety of Mexican festivals, most of which are spiritual or religious, including the holidays of Christmas, Carnival, and Holy week, and covers the Days of the Dead, the sacred arts of the Huichol ethnic group, and more, with photographs.
Download or read book Days of Obligation written by Richard Rodriguez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-11-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize Finalist Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative action. Now, in a series of intelligent and candid essays, Rodriguez ranges over five centuries to consider the moral and spiritual landscapes of Mexico and the US and their impact on his soul.
Download or read book Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts written by Cyrus Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mexican and Central American Antiquities Calendar Systems and History written by Charles Pickering Bowditch and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mexican Independence Day and Cinco de Mayo written by Dianne M. MacMillan and published by Enslow Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins and traditions of these two special holidays are presented in this illustrated reference book with full-color photos for middle readers.
Download or read book The Mexican Guide written by Thomas Allibone Janvier and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mexican Travel Beyond the United States Border Zone written by United States Travel Service and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mexican Archaeology written by Thomas Athol Joyce and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1914, this pioneering and highly illustrated textbook helpfully summarises Mexican and Mayan archaeology for non-specialist readers.
Download or read book Mexican Cookbook Traditional Mexican Recipes written by James Newton and published by Springwood emedia. This book was released on with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn all about Mexico's rich heritage in this delightful cookbook. In this ebook there is plenty of useful information about Mexico's cultural elegance, as well as a comprehensive range of the countries best loved dishes. Sample the unique flavours and enjoy the rich tapestry of a great country, through the food carefully gathered in this book.
Download or read book Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate written by Elizabeth Hill Boone and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest crops, and to be successful in many of life's activities. As the Spanish colonized Mesoamerica in the sixteenth century, they made a determined effort to destroy these books, in which the Aztec and neighboring peoples recorded their understanding of the invisible world of the sacred calendar and the cosmic forces and supernaturals that adhered to time. Today, only a few of these divinatory codices survive. Visually complex, esoteric, and strikingly beautiful, painted books such as the famous Codex Borgia and Codex Borbonicus still serve as portals into the ancient Mexican calendrical systems and the cycles of time and meaning they encode. In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Hill Boone analyzes the entire extant corpus of Mexican divinatory codices and offers a masterful explanation of the genre as a whole. She introduces the sacred, divinatory calendar and the calendar priests and diviners who owned and used the books. Boone then explains the graphic vocabulary of the calendar and its prophetic forces and describes the organizing principles that structure the codices. She shows how they form almanacs that either offer general purpose guidance or focus topically on specific aspects of life, such as birth, marriage, agriculture and rain, travel, and the forces of the planet Venus. Boone also tackles two major areas of controversy—the great narrative passage in the Codex Borgia, which she freshly interprets as a cosmic narrative of creation, and the disputed origins of the codices, which, she argues, grew out of a single religious and divinatory system.
Download or read book Information Concerning Entry of Mexican Agricultural Workers to United States written by United States. Farm Placement Service and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Study of Mexican Travel Habits and Patterns written by Karol Gess and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Mexican Travel Habits and Patterns written by United States Travel Service. Research and Analysis Division and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Information Concerning Entry of Mexican Agricultural Workers Into the United States written by United States. Farm Labor Service and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
