On the Plain of Snakes Audiobook (Free)

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 the United States of America. A forty-foot metal fence runs through its centre, separating the profitable 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 and the deportees who have been captured and cut back. Which is about Over the Ordinary of Snakes right here that Paul Theroux will begin his journey in to the culturally wealthy but troubled center of contemporary Mexico.

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

From the writer praised for his ‘curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms’ (NY Times Book Review), WITHIN THE Plain of Snakes can be an urgent and mesmerising exploration of an area in conflict.

Compliment for Paul Theroux:

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

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

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

‘One of the very most accomplished and worldly-wise writers of his generation’ THE CHANGING TIMES