Showing Fresh Wind & Strange Fire: One Man's Adventures in Primal Mexico by Lyn Fuchs
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Are you ready to travel beyond where even news reporters fear to tread? Fresh Wind & Strange Fire is author Lyn Fuchs' journey through stranger-than-fiction primal terrain. As an American professor in a Mexican university exploring the southern reaches of his adopted country, Fuchs knows the territory as only a local resident can and is uniquely qualified to convey its essence to English-speaking readers. Fuchs' adventures include buying fake documents, eating iguanas, ingesting peyote, scaling glaciers, train-hopping with migrants, splash-fighting with Mayans, joking with narcotraficantes, being exfoliated by fish, having a tooth extracted without anesthetic, and interviewing the last living witness to a Latin American extermination camp. As mystics exalt the lotus for its stately blossoms arising out of muddy waters, Lyn celebrates life by gleaning hilarity and wisdom from bizarre reality.
Important places
- Huajuapan De Leon (1)
- Ixtlan De Juarez (1)
- La Isla (1)
- Loma Bonita (1)
- Orizaba (2)
- Palenque (5)
- Puebla (6)
- San Juan Tuxtepec (1)
- S. Cristobal de Las Casas (3)
- Tlacotalpan (1)
- Valle Nacional (1)
Regions
Countries
- Mexico (1,563)
Other geographical areas
- Sierra Madre Del Sur (57)
- Central America (806)