The Devil's Highway
A True Story
by Luis Alberto Urrea
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Describes the attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil's Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds. Only 12 men came back out. 2 maps.
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Social aspects, Crimes against, Human smuggling, Illegal aliens, Social conditions, Nonfiction, Emigration and immigration, Politics, Mexican-american border region, United states, emigration and immigration, Human smuggling--mexican-american border region, Illegal aliens--crimes against, Illegal aliens--crimes against--mexican-american border region, Emigration and immigration--social aspects, Jv6475 .u77 2005, 304.873072, Noncitizens, Illegal immigration, Undocumented Immigrants, Aliens, Immigration and emigration| Edition | Availability |
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The Devil's Highway
2008, Little, Brown and Company
Electronic resource
in English
031604928X 9780316049283
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story
September 19, 2005, Back Bay Books
Paperback
in English
0316010804 9780316010801
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story
April 2, 2004, Little, Brown and Company
Hardcover
in English
- 1 edition
0316746711 9780316746717
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"Five men stumbled out of the mountain pass so sunstruck they didn't know their own names, couldn't remember where they'd come from, had forgotten how long they'd been lost."
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The author of "Across the Wire" offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out. "Superb . . . Nothing less than a saga on the scale of the Exodus and an ordeal as heartbreaking as the Passion . . . The book comes vividly alive with a richness of language and a mastery of narrative detail that only the most gifted of writers are able to achieve.--"Los Angeles Times Book Review."
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