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The Devil's Highway. A True Story.
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Urrea, Luis Alberto
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Artículo Disponible
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304.8730 U81
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In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the vorder into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, a place called the Devil's Highway. Fathers and sons, brothers and strangers, entered a desert so harsh and desolate that even the Border Patrol is afraid to travel through it.
For hundreds of years, men have tried to conquer this land, and for hundreds of years the desert has stolen their souls and swalloed their blood. Along the Devil's highway, days are so hot that dead bodies naturally mummify almost immediately. And that May, twenty-six men went in. Twelve came back out. Now, Luis Alberto Urrea tells the story of this modern odyssey. He take us back to the small towns adn unpaved cities south of the border, where the poor fall prey to dreams of a better life and the sinister promises of smugglers. We meet the men who will decide to make the crossing along the Devil's Highway and, on te other side of the border, the men who are ready to prevent them from reaching their destination. Urrea reveals exactly what happened when the twenty-six headed into the waste-land, and how they were brutally betrayed by the one man they had trusted most. And from that betrayal came the inferno, a descent into a world of cactus spines, labyrinths of sand, mountains shaped like the teeth of a shark, and a sceraming sun so intense that even at midnight the temperature only drops to 97degrees. And yet, the men would not give up. The Devil's Highway is a story of astonishing courage and strenght, of an epic battle against circumstance. These twenty-six men would look the Devil in the eyes - and some of them would not blink. |
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0-316-74671-1
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Little, Brown and Company
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2004
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240
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United States of America
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New York
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English
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Priscila Barrientos
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Priscila Barrientos
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08/04/2015
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08/04/2015
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