| A Writer in Panamá: Life and Travels in a Vanishing Frontier World Contributor(s): Audlin, James David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1475221495 ISBN-13: 9781475221497 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $14.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Central America |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (0.89 lbs) 300 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An American who cannot afford to live in his own house escapes to Panam . Finds himself in Heaven - a beautiful land with wonderful people - but finds corrosive civilization coming ever nearer this fragile alien world. In this travel memoir, novelist James David Audlin tells of his adventures in one of the world's last frontier lands. Here one still sees Ng be Bugl people, in their bare feet and traditional finery, walking through the village as if they are visiting from another planet. Here descendants of the Conquistadores still ride horseback on dirt roads far too rutted for the new arrivals, the gringos, to negotiate in their big SUVs. Here in the temblor-shaken Tierras Altas, in the shadow of the great Bar volcano at the center of the world - here, for a while yet, there is a respite from the worldwide flood of commercialism, bigotry, arrogation, and greed. But it will not last much longer. |