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In rhyming text, describes various sights and activities that tourists would enjoy in Mexico.

"An intrepid journalist joins the planet's largest group of nomads on an annual migration that, like them, has endured for centuries. Anna Badkhen has forged a career chronicling life in extremis around the world, from war-torn Afghanistan to the border regions of the American Southwest. In Walking with Abel, she embeds herself with a family of Fulani cowboys--nomadic herders in Mali's Sahel grasslands--as they embark on their annual migration across the savanna. It's a cycle that connects the Fulani to their past even as their present is increasingly under threat--from Islamic militants, climate change, and the ever-encroaching urbanization that lures away their young. The Fulani, though, are no strangers to uncertainty--brilliantly resourceful and resilient, they've contended with famines, droughts, and wars for centuries. Dubbed "Anna Ba" by the nomads, who embrace her as one of theirs, Badkhen narrates the Fulani's journeys and her own with compassion and keen observation, transporting us from the Neolithic Sahara crisscrossed by rivers and abundant with wildlife to obelisk forests where the Fulani's Stone Age ancestors painted tributes to cattle. As they cross the Sahel, the savanna belt that stretches from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic, they accompany themselves with Fulani music they download to their cell phones and tales of herders and hustlers, griots and holy men, infused with the myths the Fulani tell themselves to ground their past, make sense of their identity, and safeguard their--our--future"--.

In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu's great-great-grandfather Liu's Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of prized antique porcelain, and undertake a decades-long trek that would splinter the family over thousands of miles. Many years and upheavals later, Hsu, raised in Salt Lake City and armed only with curiosity, moved to China to work in his uncle's semiconductor chip business. Once there, a conversation with his grandmother, his last living link to dynastic China, ignites a desire to learn more about not only his lost ancestral heirlooms but also porcelain itself. Mastering the language enough to venture into the countryside, Hsu set out to separate the layers of fact and fiction that have obscured both China and his heritage and finally complete his family's long march back home. Provides a revealing, lively perspective on contemporary Chinese society from the point of view of a Chinese- American coming to terms with his hyphenated identity.

A state-by-state guide to places associated with Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and other notable members of the Beat Generation, with photographs and literary lore.

Young John Cole's dream of growing up and living wild and free on his grandfather's Texas ranch is shattered when his grandfather dies and John runs away to Mexico.

An annotated edition of American author Mark Twain's 1889 social and technological satire in which Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American, is transported to sixth-century England. Also includes several of Dan Beard's original illustrations for the novel, as well as a scholarly introduction, a Twain chronology, and a selected bibliography.

Jack Chambers discovers a cult-like group of his father's followers whose obsession is the pursuit of invisibility found in the color indigo, while he reunites with his half sister Louise and his father's mistress to claim their inheritance.

Contains twenty-five travel articles published in a variety of magazines, journals, newspapers, and Web sites, selected as the best of 2007 by editor Anthony Bourdain, host of the Travel Channel's culinary and cultural adventure program "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.".

Sixty pages of maps, 40 suggested itineraries, background essays.

The distinguished economist candidly comments on his trip to China and the workings of the Chinese economy.