First Stop in the New World
Nonfiction, Travel, Caribbean & Latin America, Mexico, History, Americas, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology
| Author: | David Lida | ISBN: | 9781440631641 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group | Publication: | June 12, 2008 |
| Imprint: | Riverhead Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | David Lida |
| ISBN: | 9781440631641 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Publication: | June 12, 2008 |
| Imprint: | Riverhead Books |
| Language: | English |
The definitive book on Mexico City: a vibrant, seductive, and paradoxical metropolis-the second-biggest city in the world, and a vision of our urban future.
First Stop in the New World is a street-level panorama of Mexico City, the largest metropolis in the western hemisphere and the cultural capital of the Spanish-speaking world. Journalist David Lida expertly captures the kaleidoscopic nature of life in a city defined by pleasure and danger, ecstatic joy and appalling tragedy-hanging in limbo between the developed and underdeveloped worlds. With this literary-journalist account, he establishes himself as the ultimate chronicler of this bustling megalopolis at a key moment in its-and our-history.
The definitive book on Mexico City: a vibrant, seductive, and paradoxical metropolis-the second-biggest city in the world, and a vision of our urban future.
First Stop in the New World is a street-level panorama of Mexico City, the largest metropolis in the western hemisphere and the cultural capital of the Spanish-speaking world. Journalist David Lida expertly captures the kaleidoscopic nature of life in a city defined by pleasure and danger, ecstatic joy and appalling tragedy-hanging in limbo between the developed and underdeveloped worlds. With this literary-journalist account, he establishes himself as the ultimate chronicler of this bustling megalopolis at a key moment in its-and our-history.
