Verwandte Artikel zu Cocaine Train: Tracing My Bloodline Through Colombia...
![9780316647496: Cocaine Train: Tracing My Bloodline Through Colombia [Idioma Inglés]](https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780316647496-de.jpg)
Críticas
Stephen Smith has both style and destination, and has written a book that is hard to put down ... this is the sort of book that has you greeting each new page with excitement and anticipation (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)
This writer has a good eye for the fleeting and bizarre, and there are some marvellous descriptive passages ... COCAINE TRAIN deserves to share the success of Smith's previous excellent travelogue, FOR THE LAND OF MIRACLES (NEW STATESMAN)
Fascinating ... genuinely brilliant (Jon Snow, OBSERVER)
He is the best sort of reporter: detached, ironic, yet well-versed on the terrain he's exploring ... a compelling portrait of a society on the verge of an ideological breakdown (Douglas Kennedy, INDEPENDENT)
Reseña del editor
One of the most violent countries on earth, where the cause of death is regularly 'massacre', drink drivers play chicken and kidnap stories pass for dinner party conversation; nine times more dangerous than the United States, Columbia is no place for the nervous traveller. So it is much against his better judgement that, in the summer of 1998, coinciding with a World Cup and a general election, journalist Stephen Smith finds himself boarding the Cocaine Train out of Cali, home of Columbia's infamous drugs cartel. Its passengers prey to theives, extortionists and a dozen different varieties of paramilitary, the Cocaine Train is one of the last remnants of a once great railway system, and Smith is riding in it in search of a grandfather he barely knew: Fred Leslie Frost, pioneering railwayman, upright citizen and diplomat, with a Columbian mistress and an illegitimate son. And the Columbia Stephen Smith uncovers on his extraordinary journey - surreally beautiful, unfathomably savage, seedily glamourous and mercilessly corroded by the trade in drugs- is as remote from his suburban British origins as it is possible to imagine.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.
„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.
- VerlagLittle, Brown
- Erscheinungsdatum1999
- ISBN 10 0316647497
- ISBN 13 9780316647496
- EinbandTapa dura
- Anzahl der Seiten256
Beste Suchergebnisse beim ZVAB
Beispielbild für diese ISBN
Cocaine Train: Travels in Colombia
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verkäuferbewertung 5 von 5 Sternen
Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Artikel-Nr. GOR001047963
Anzahl: 3 verfügbar
Beispielbild für diese ISBN
Cocaine Train: Travels in Colombia
Anbieter: Reuseabook, Gloucester, GLOS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verkäuferbewertung 5 von 5 Sternen
Hardcover. Zustand: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine. Artikel-Nr. CHL9959860
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar