Urban Circus: Travels With Mexico's Malabaristas

by Catriona Rainsford

Overview

The story opens in Chihuahua, North Mexico, with a chance meeting with a group of itinerant Mexican street performers. Entranced by their stories and free-roaming lifestyle,  the author accompanies them on a two-year, hand-to-mouth journey across Mexico, learning to live off nothing more than a few performance skills, initiative, and the kindness of strangers. Compelling, humorous, sometimes violent, and full of wonderful descriptions of life on the road, this is also a discussion of the morality of hand-to-mouth travel andoffers an insight into the day-to-day experiences of Mexico’s urban poor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781841624440
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	05/21/2013
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.00(d)