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River of Traps
Debuys, William; Harris, Alex
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Description for River of Traps
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, B&W photos throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 757.
New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo mountains are a place where two cultures -- Hispanic and Anglo -- meet. They're also the place where three men meet: William deBuys, a young writer; Alex Harris, a young photographer; and Jacobo Romero, an old farmer. When Harris and deBuys move to New Mexico in the 1970s, Romero is the neighbor who befriends them and becomes their teacher. With the tools of simple labor -- shovel and axe, irony and humor -- he shows them how to survive, even flourish, in their isolated village. A remarkable look at modern life in the mountains, River ... Read more
New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo mountains are a place where two cultures -- Hispanic and Anglo -- meet. They're also the place where three men meet: William deBuys, a young writer; Alex Harris, a young photographer; and Jacobo Romero, an old farmer. When Harris and deBuys move to New Mexico in the 1970s, Romero is the neighbor who befriends them and becomes their teacher. With the tools of simple labor -- shovel and axe, irony and humor -- he shows them how to survive, even flourish, in their isolated village. A remarkable look at modern life in the mountains, River ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Trinity University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
San Antonio, United States
ISBN
9781595340351
SKU
V9781595340351
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Ref
99-15
About Debuys, William; Harris, Alex
William deBuys is a writer and conservationist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of The Walk and River of Traps, coauthored with Alex Harris, which was a finalist for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and a 1990 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. DeBuys's other books are Salt Dreams: Land and Water ... Read more
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