Author: Peter Moore
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0553817019
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Peter Moore’s wicked sense of humour and eye for the bizarre add to the pleasure of this cautionary tale for anyone planning to cross a continent with their significant other. From Mexico to Jamaica, Honduras to ancient Mayan sites and golden beaches, follow the highs and lows of one couple’s journey.
The Full Montezuma
Author: Peter Moore
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0553817019
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Peter Moore’s wicked sense of humour and eye for the bizarre add to the pleasure of this cautionary tale for anyone planning to cross a continent with their significant other. From Mexico to Jamaica, Honduras to ancient Mayan sites and golden beaches, follow the highs and lows of one couple’s journey.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0553817019
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Peter Moore’s wicked sense of humour and eye for the bizarre add to the pleasure of this cautionary tale for anyone planning to cross a continent with their significant other. From Mexico to Jamaica, Honduras to ancient Mayan sites and golden beaches, follow the highs and lows of one couple’s journey.
Montezuma Strip
Author: Alan Dean Foster
Publisher: Aspect
ISBN: 0759526249
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The ultimate maquiladora. Montezuma Strip: First world tech and Third World wages, sprawling from L.A. to East Elpaso Juarez, Guyamas to Phoenix; a thousand gangs, a million locos; and a few wealthy beyond the dreams of god.
Publisher: Aspect
ISBN: 0759526249
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The ultimate maquiladora. Montezuma Strip: First world tech and Third World wages, sprawling from L.A. to East Elpaso Juarez, Guyamas to Phoenix; a thousand gangs, a million locos; and a few wealthy beyond the dreams of god.
Swahili for the Broken-hearted
Author: Peter Moore
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0553814524
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Question: What do you do when you're dumped by the Girl Next Door? Answer: Throw yourself into another madcap adventure and travel from Cape Town to Cairo... A week after breaking up with the GND (his travelling companion through Central America) Peter Moore heads off to Africa to lose himself for a while. In the grand tradition of 19th-century scoundrelas, explorers and romantics, Africa strikes him as the ideal place to find solitude and anonymity in the face of a personal crisis. What follows is Peter's journey from one end of the Dark Continent to the other. Travelling the fabled Cape Town to Cairo route by any means of transport he can blag (or if he must, pay) his way onto, it's an epic trek that sees our intrepid Antipodean experience everything from the southernmost city in Africa to the Pyramids, vast game parks and thundering falls, cosmopolitan cities and tiny villages as he journeys through the very heart of Africa. And travelling on his own, it's inevitable that Peter falls in with a motley cast of characters and has a myriad misadventures: including coming face to face with a wild Hyena with very bad breath, crossing the treacherous Sani Pass, the highest in Africa, narrowly escaping a riot by hiding in a coffin shop, saving oil-covered Penguins in South Africa, acting as an extra in a WW2 epic, not to mention dodging 20,000 single woman trying to catch the eye of the king of Swaziland during the annual Reed Dance. And then there was the time when he was kicked out of Robert Mugabe's birthday bash at gunpoint...
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0553814524
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Question: What do you do when you're dumped by the Girl Next Door? Answer: Throw yourself into another madcap adventure and travel from Cape Town to Cairo... A week after breaking up with the GND (his travelling companion through Central America) Peter Moore heads off to Africa to lose himself for a while. In the grand tradition of 19th-century scoundrelas, explorers and romantics, Africa strikes him as the ideal place to find solitude and anonymity in the face of a personal crisis. What follows is Peter's journey from one end of the Dark Continent to the other. Travelling the fabled Cape Town to Cairo route by any means of transport he can blag (or if he must, pay) his way onto, it's an epic trek that sees our intrepid Antipodean experience everything from the southernmost city in Africa to the Pyramids, vast game parks and thundering falls, cosmopolitan cities and tiny villages as he journeys through the very heart of Africa. And travelling on his own, it's inevitable that Peter falls in with a motley cast of characters and has a myriad misadventures: including coming face to face with a wild Hyena with very bad breath, crossing the treacherous Sani Pass, the highest in Africa, narrowly escaping a riot by hiding in a coffin shop, saving oil-covered Penguins in South Africa, acting as an extra in a WW2 epic, not to mention dodging 20,000 single woman trying to catch the eye of the king of Swaziland during the annual Reed Dance. And then there was the time when he was kicked out of Robert Mugabe's birthday bash at gunpoint...
The Nine Lives of Montezuma
Author: Michael Morpurgo
Publisher: Egmont Books Limited
ISBN: 9781405233385
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Charts the adventures of a farmyard cat.
Publisher: Egmont Books Limited
ISBN: 9781405233385
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Charts the adventures of a farmyard cat.
Montezuma's Revenge
Author: Harry Harrison
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0812504445
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0812504445
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Montezuma
Author: Jon Bowman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Montezuma Castle near Las Vegas, New Mexico ranks among the undisputed architectural gems of the state. Built in the 1880s as arguably the most opulent and fashionable resort west of the Mississippi, the Montezuma hosted US presidents and titans of industry as well as European and Japanese nobility and the outlaw Jesse James. Patrons enjoyed the first bowling alley in the West, the first electric lighting in New Mexico, celebrated hot springs and spas, and exquisite cuisine, including fresh fish and sea turtles hauled by rail from the West Coast and Mexico. In spite of its illustrious past, the Montezuma stood empty for much of the last century -- the structure vandalised and falling into ruin. Chances for its resurrection looked dim until 1997 when the National Trust for Historic Preservation designated the former hotel as one of America's eleven Most Endangered Historic Places. It was the first property west of the Mississippi to gain that attention, and a committed preservation effort followed.Here is the story of the castle's heritage, its architectural grandeur and its rebirth as an educational complex serving the diverse, global population of students attending the United World College of the American West, founded by Armand Hammer with help from Prince Charles.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Montezuma Castle near Las Vegas, New Mexico ranks among the undisputed architectural gems of the state. Built in the 1880s as arguably the most opulent and fashionable resort west of the Mississippi, the Montezuma hosted US presidents and titans of industry as well as European and Japanese nobility and the outlaw Jesse James. Patrons enjoyed the first bowling alley in the West, the first electric lighting in New Mexico, celebrated hot springs and spas, and exquisite cuisine, including fresh fish and sea turtles hauled by rail from the West Coast and Mexico. In spite of its illustrious past, the Montezuma stood empty for much of the last century -- the structure vandalised and falling into ruin. Chances for its resurrection looked dim until 1997 when the National Trust for Historic Preservation designated the former hotel as one of America's eleven Most Endangered Historic Places. It was the first property west of the Mississippi to gain that attention, and a committed preservation effort followed.Here is the story of the castle's heritage, its architectural grandeur and its rebirth as an educational complex serving the diverse, global population of students attending the United World College of the American West, founded by Armand Hammer with help from Prince Charles.
Carlos Montezuma and the Changing World of American Indians
Author: Peter Iverson
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826306418
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The classic biography of one of the great Native American crusaders for Indian rights in the early twentieth century.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826306418
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The classic biography of one of the great Native American crusaders for Indian rights in the early twentieth century.
The Full Montezuma
Author: Peter Moore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780553813357
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
From the author of No Shitting in the Toilet, this book chronicles the trials and delights of travelling across Central America and the Caribbean as a couple. They battle hurricanes, mosquitoes and over-sexed Mexican commuters to reach breathtaking Mayan sites and idyllic golden beaches.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780553813357
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
From the author of No Shitting in the Toilet, this book chronicles the trials and delights of travelling across Central America and the Caribbean as a couple. They battle hurricanes, mosquitoes and over-sexed Mexican commuters to reach breathtaking Mayan sites and idyllic golden beaches.
Cortés and Montezuma
Author: Maurice Collis
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214230
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America."
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214230
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America."
To the Halls of the Montezumas
Author: Robert W. Johannsen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019536418X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
For mid-19th-century Americans, the Mexican War was not only a grand exercise in self-identity, legitimizing the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world; it was also the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press and to be waged against an alien foe in a distant and exotic land. It provided a window onto the outside world and promoted an awareness of a people and a land unlike any Americans had known before. This rich cultural history examines the place of the Mexican War in the popular imagination of the era. Drawing on military and travel accounts, newspaper dispatches, and a host of other sources, Johannsen vividly recreates the mood and feeling of the period--its unbounded optimism and patriotic pride--and adds a new dimension to our understanding of both the Mexican War and America itself.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019536418X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
For mid-19th-century Americans, the Mexican War was not only a grand exercise in self-identity, legitimizing the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world; it was also the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press and to be waged against an alien foe in a distant and exotic land. It provided a window onto the outside world and promoted an awareness of a people and a land unlike any Americans had known before. This rich cultural history examines the place of the Mexican War in the popular imagination of the era. Drawing on military and travel accounts, newspaper dispatches, and a host of other sources, Johannsen vividly recreates the mood and feeling of the period--its unbounded optimism and patriotic pride--and adds a new dimension to our understanding of both the Mexican War and America itself.