When you read this book, read it with the understanding that you probably won't like the author. He's incredibly honest, and thus self-effacing. He admits he was whiny, exhausted, and ill- equipped. But read this book anyway. The story of Theodore Morde is fascinating. The theory of Cuidad Blanca...
Pancho and his twenty-one-year-old son Angel had ridden all morning in the back of a battered pickup truck from their tiny village in the far eastern part of the country. When I saw them, at first I was a little confused. It struck me that they weren’t exactly dressed for a monthlong journey over...