The master of contemporary travel writing, Paul Theroux, immerses himself in the beautiful and troubled heart of modern Mexico

Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and america of America. A forty-foot steel fence runs through its center, separating the productive US side from your impoverished Mexican part. It is a remarkable site of tension, now more than ever, as the town fills with hopeful boundary crossers as well as the deportees who have been captured and brought back. And it is about On the Simple of Snakes right here that Paul Theroux will start his journey in to the culturally wealthy but troubled heart of contemporary Mexico.

Moving through the deserts just south from the Arizona border, Theroux discovers a place filled with appeal, yet visibly marked by both US border patrol looming to the north and mounting discord from within. Going to local vocabulary and culinary colleges, driving through the united states and conference its people, Paul Theroux gets under the epidermis of Mexico.

In the writer praised for his ‘curiosity and affection for humanity in every its forms’ (NY Times Book Review), AROUND THE Plain of Snakes can be an urgent and mesmerising exploration of a region in conflict.

Compliment for Paul Theroux:

‘As cool as Maugham… as observant, user-friendly, wry, inventive and eloquent as Graham Greene’ Weekend Times

‘Theroux’s work remains to be the standard by which other travel composing should be judged’ Observer

‘The world’s most perceptive travel writer’ Daily Mail

‘One of the very most achieved and worldly-wise writers of his generation’ The Times