Mexico City: An Opinionated Guide for the Curious Traveler

Mexico City: An Opinionated Guide for the Curious Traveler
Jim Johnston (Author)
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Mexico City

As the largest metropolis on the planet, Mexico City can overwhelm even the most adventurous visitor. Thankfully, Mexico City: An Opinionated Guide for the Curious Traveler gives you a thorough, guiding hand to make your stay outstanding. Written by Jim Johnston, a longtime resident who knows the city inside and out, this travel guide delivers detailed walking tours of the city that include the most popular tourist spots and the lesser-known areas. Johnston knows where to stay, what to do, and where to eat: everything from authentic market food to sophisticated Mexican cuisine.What began as a collection of notes to share with good friends is now available to every newcomer looking for a joyful, memorable stay in Mexico City!"This is the guidebook that I want. Wonderfully written, airtight information, organized in the smartest possibly way. I can't imagine a better Mexico City guide for these times."-Tony Cohan, author of Mexican Days and On Mexican Time"Johnston is the friend you wish you had in every great city, toting you from palace to museum to park but never missing the exquisite pastelería, the grand hotel lobby or the clean public bathroom."-San Francisco Chronicle

• Rank: #97743 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.50" h x .31" w x 5.51" l, .41 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 140 pages

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'Fletcher makes an excellent guide, a blend of novice rafter, back country expert, hardcore environmentalist and curious traveler'. -- Washington PostAt age sixty-seven Colin Fletcher, the guru of American backpacking whose treks through the California desert and the Grand Canyon have entertained hundreds of thousands of readers, undertook a strenuous voyage down the full length of the Colorado River -- solo. He needed 'something to pare the fat off my soul...to make me grateful, again, for being alive'.The 1700 miles between the Colorado's source in Wyoming and its conclusion at Mexico's Gulf of California contain some of the most spectacular vistas on earth, and Fletcher -- engaging, opinionated, and unconventional -- is the ideal guide for the terrain. As his privileged companions, we travel to Disaster Falls and Desolation Canyon, experience sandstorms and whitewater rapids, and share Fletcher's thoughts on the human race, the environment, and the joys of solitude. River is the journey of a lifetime, served up with delectable brio and wit.'Fletcher earthily conveys high drama....River is a human-scale story about a continent-sized national wonder'. -- Newsday Author: Fletcher, Colin, Fletcher, Colin ISBN-10: 0375701826

Several Ways to Die in Mexico City: An Autobiography of Death in Mexico City

Several Ways to Die in Mexico City: An Autobiography of Death in Mexico City
Kurt Hollander (Author)
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Mexico City

In the '80s, when author/photographer Kurt Hollander lived in New York and published The Portable Lower East, life there was particularly rough, and cops often drove yellow cabs as a method to surprise and roust its residents. Before the decade ended, Hollander moved to the equally rough climes of Mexico City, making his living writing and photographing for The Guardian, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and many other publications.

Hollander's visual and textual extravaganza, Several Ways to Die in Mexico City, provides a perspective of this extraordinary city that could only have been caught by an observant outsider who lived in all its nooks and crannies for over two decades.

Crammed with caustic but fair observations of the city's history, food, cults, drugs, and buildings, Hollander proves that he can love a city and culture that also kills its inhabitants softly. The book contains dozens of extraordinary photographs.

While living high in Mexico City, Kurt Hollander edited poliester, the renowned bilingual art magazine about the Americas. He also directed the feature film Carambola and wrote a successful series of children's books. Grove Press published the Portable Lower East Side anthology in 1994.

• Rank: #338484 in Books
• Published on: 2012-10-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .79" w x 5.98" l, .80 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 300 pages

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Explores the main causes of death in Mexico City to reveal ways in which cities shape a person's death as much as their life.

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Categories: Sociology * Urban. Contributors: Kurt Hollander - Author. Format: Paperback