So Far from God : Journey to Central America

Name: So Far from God
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU: 9780747524335
Price: 1950 KES
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ISBN: 9780747524335

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by Patrick Marnham

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0747524335

ISBN-13 9780747524335

Edition New

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 18th, 1996

Print length 320 Pages

Weight 294 grams

Dimensions 11.00 x 15.90 x 2.60 cms

Product Classification: Travel writing

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A portrayal of the troubled countries of Central America described by the author as he travels through them by train and bus. He witnesses political conflict and observes how fervent Catholicism can live side by side with extreme violence.

A portrayal of the troubled countries of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, as the author travels through them by train and bus. The author shows daily lives lived against a backdrop of continued and seemingly endless political friction and conflicts, in places that exhibit the contradictions inherent in an area of which Porfirio Diaz said: "Poor Mexico! So far from God, so close to the United States". It is an observation that serves as an epigraph to the book, as a means of showing how fervent Catholicism can live side by side with extreme violence, how people can show alternating friendliness and suspicion towards strangers, and how the attitudes with which Central America and the United States regard one another can be a mixture of both fear and longing.

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