Data Portal @ linkeddatafragments.org

Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/007372321/catalog> ?p ?o. }

• catalog abstract "Yesterday's Train starts from a twisted tree at the shore near Veracruz - where according to local legend Cortes first chained his ships in 1519 - a place where the earth itself seems in protest. From there, Pindell and collaborator Lourdes Ramirez Mallis travel to the stunning extremes of Mexico's landscape while casting back through its past. From ancient Toltec myth and Aztec ritual to the recent crisis in Chiapas and the halls of Mexico City power, they explore the. Strange contradictions of Mexico's character. In Yesterday's Train, Terry Pindell brings us an odyssey through the most troubled part of the continent, witnessing for a year the roots of Mexico's current civil upheaval. And as always, he accomplishes much more than a journey, traveling straight to the restive heart of a land and its people.".
• catalog contributor b10178125.
• catalog contributor b10178126.
• catalog coverage "Mexico Description and travel.".
• catalog coverage "Mexico History.".
• catalog created "1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction -- Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City; a pre-Hispanic history -- 1. Apocalypse -- Veracruz to Mexico City; the conquest of Mexico by Cortes -- 2. The Man with Fire -- Mexico City to Guadalajara: the colonial world and the war for independence -- 3. So Far from God -- Guadalajara to Mexicali; the early republic and the war with the United States -- 4. In the Silence of the Canyon -- Los Mochis to Chihuahua; The Copper Canyon, the Tarahumara -- 5. Yesterday's Train -- Chihuahua to Aguascalientes (the 1994 election); La Reforma, Emperor Maximilian and the Portfiriato -- 6. Feast of Death -- Mexico City to Oaxaca (the Day of the Dead); the revolution -- 7. Sand Castles -- Cancun to Palenque; President Lazaro Cardenas, and foreigners in Mexico -- 8. The Migration of the Butterflies -- Mexico City to Playa Azul (the Day of the Virgin); the modern PRI regime to the student massacre of 1968 -- 9. Faces to the Sun -- Tapachula to Tuxtla Gutierrez (a letter from Marcos); 1968 to the present -- Epilogue -- The Return of Quetzalcoatl.".
• catalog description "Strange contradictions of Mexico's character. In Yesterday's Train, Terry Pindell brings us an odyssey through the most troubled part of the continent, witnessing for a year the roots of Mexico's current civil upheaval. And as always, he accomplishes much more than a journey, traveling straight to the restive heart of a land and its people.".
• catalog description "Yesterday's Train starts from a twisted tree at the shore near Veracruz - where according to local legend Cortes first chained his ships in 1519 - a place where the earth itself seems in protest. From there, Pindell and collaborator Lourdes Ramirez Mallis travel to the stunning extremes of Mexico's landscape while casting back through its past. From ancient Toltec myth and Aztec ritual to the recent crisis in Chiapas and the halls of Mexico City power, they explore the.".
• catalog extent "xi, 377 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0805037918 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Henry Holt and Co.,".
• catalog spatial "Mexico Description and travel.".
• catalog spatial "Mexico History.".
• catalog spatial "Mexico.".
• catalog subject "972 20".
• catalog subject "F1216.5 .P56 1997".
• catalog subject "Pindell, Terry Journeys Mexico.".
• catalog subject "Pindell, Terry Travel Mexico.".
• catalog subject "Railroad travel Mexico.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City; a pre-Hispanic history -- 1. Apocalypse -- Veracruz to Mexico City; the conquest of Mexico by Cortes -- 2. The Man with Fire -- Mexico City to Guadalajara: the colonial world and the war for independence -- 3. So Far from God -- Guadalajara to Mexicali; the early republic and the war with the United States -- 4. In the Silence of the Canyon -- Los Mochis to Chihuahua; The Copper Canyon, the Tarahumara -- 5. Yesterday's Train -- Chihuahua to Aguascalientes (the 1994 election); La Reforma, Emperor Maximilian and the Portfiriato -- 6. Feast of Death -- Mexico City to Oaxaca (the Day of the Dead); the revolution -- 7. Sand Castles -- Cancun to Palenque; President Lazaro Cardenas, and foreigners in Mexico -- 8. The Migration of the Butterflies -- Mexico City to Playa Azul (the Day of the Virgin); the modern PRI regime to the student massacre of 1968 -- 9. Faces to the Sun -- Tapachula to Tuxtla Gutierrez (a letter from Marcos); 1968 to the present -- Epilogue -- The Return of Quetzalcoatl.".
• catalog title "Yesterday's train : a rail odyssey through Mexican history / Terry Pindell with Lourdes Ramirez-Mallis.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".