The Reader's Companion to Mexico

by Alan Ryan (Editor)

A collection of eyewitness accounts offers a descriptive tour of Mexico from Cabo San Lucas to Mexico City to Yucata+a7n, and features the observations of such writers as D. H. Lawrence, Paul Theroux, Langston Hughes, and John Steinbeck. Original.

368 pages, Paperback

First published July 16, 1995

About the author

Alan Peter Ryan was an American author and editor, known for his work in the horror genre in the 1980s.

Reviews

[Kathy]

Well, let's see. There's Graham Greene on hating Palenque, one place I have always been wanting to visit. He seems to find something wrong with a plaza where there was "no life at all: two wooden seats, a mineral water stall, some dogs and flies." Greene is my all time favorite travel writer, nailing the places he visits.

Then there's DH Lawrence on market day in Oaxaca- the most fascinating, brutal and otherworldly market I had ever seen- a trip where I ended up detoured to Taxco, sleeping in Lawrence's cabin.. a where the desire to return to this country over and over began.

[Lboogiepeace]

Please read this book. Your life will be enriched. And you'll want to go to, or return to, Mexico as a literary ex-pat.