Beyond Tijuana : A Journey Through Latin America

'Foreign lands never yield their secrets to a traveller. The best they offer are tantalising snippets, just enough to inflame the imagination. The secrets they do reveal are your own—the ones you have kept from yourself. And this is reason enough to travel, to leave home'.

Graeme Sparkes and his partner Tania spent a year travelling north through Latin America. This enthralling account of their journey takes the reader through lush, rain-soaked jungles, across arid deserts, and into the chaotic life of the region's cities.

Sparkes gives a frank, compelling and sometimes comic account of his and Tania's adventures. He has an eagle eye for irresistible detail: the majestic extremities of the landscape, the grubby hotels, the antiquity of the culture, the endemic poverty, and the extraordinary people Sparkes meets on the road.

Beyond Tijuana is a sweeping evocation of Latin America, and an intimate glimpse into the experience of travel itself.

Praise for Beyond Tijuana:

'A quirky and generous book...Sparkes captures the flavours, the heat, the exhaustion and the endless fascination of cultures so different from his own.'

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