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The House of Spirits written by Isabel Allende performed by Marisol Ramirez and Thom Rivera on Audio CD (Unabridged)

The House of Spirits written by Isabel Allende performed by Marisol Ramirez and Thom Rivera on Audio CD (Unabridged)£69.99

The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted and imaginative storytellers The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political...

The Coyote's Bicycle written by Kimball Taylor performed by Thom Rivera on Audio CD (Unabridged)

The Coyote's Bicycle written by Kimball Taylor performed by Thom Rivera on Audio CD (Unabridged)
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ISBN:  9781978650435
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Social Science
Duration:  780 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Kimball Taylor
Performer 1:  Thom Rivera

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For listeners of Jon Krakauer and Susan Orlean, The Coyote's Bicycle brings to life a never-before-told phenomenon at our southern border, and the human drama of those who would cross. It wasn’t surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt roads and farmland just across the...

border from Tijuana, but before long they were arriving in droves. The bikes went from curiosity, to nuisance, to phenomenon. But until they caught the eye of journalist Kimball Taylor, only a small cadre of human smugglers - coyotes - and migrants could say how or why they’d gotten there.

This is the story of 7,000 bikes that made an incredible journey and one young man from Oaxaca who arrived at the border with nothing, built a small empire, and then vanished.

Taylor follows the trail of the border bikes through some of society’s most powerful institutions, and, with the help of an unlikely source, he reconstructs the rise of one of Tijuana’s most innovative coyotes.

Touching on immigration and globalization, as well as the history of the US/Mexico border, The Coyote’s Bicycle is at once an immersive investigation of an outrageous occurrence and a true-crime, rags-to-riches story.

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