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Chicago. 1937. Willett,Clark & Company. 1st American Edition. Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Worn and Chipped Dustjacket. Illustrated by Stirling Dickinson. 111 pages. hardcover. Block Print Signed by Both Author & Illustrator Inserted In Front. keywords: Latin America Mexico History Travel. DESCRIPTION - Death is incidental to men in the throes of revolution. One may argue the causes, the promises, the fulfillments of revolution, but one can never deny the numberless, unwritten personal tragedies that accompany it wherever it goes. This book intimately describes four such tragedies - of Jesus, who asked only to spend his life in the service of his master, Don Fernando; of that small landowner himself, who wanted nothing of the revolution and tried in vain to stay aloof from it; of the peon Juan, reared in the tradition of the church, who later fought against it; and of Padre Dominguez, a priest caught up in the revolution as it swept through the beautiful mountain town of San Miguel de Allende in the great central plateau of Mexico. Yet this story might have happened anywhere that revolution has visited. It could have occurred when Rome was young and men fought and gave their lives for a republic; it could have happened yesterday during the American Revolution, or the French; or it could have been born in the dawn of today in cold Slavic Russia, or this very noon in warmer Latin Madrid. It is a story that illuminates momentarily the long Mexican revolution as a flash of lightning might reveal a forest in the midst of a night of storm. This story is a natural progression from the authors' other books, which are personal accounts of their own travels. Based on true happenings in San Miguel de Allende, it is the product of their second sojourn of several months in this town. Few tourists have seen the historically important and beautiful mountain town of San Miguel, six hours by rail north of Mexico City. Named after one of the propounders of Mexico's independence from Spain, Don Ignacio Allende, and situated within a few kilometers of the spot where that declaration was first enunciated - the Sanctuary of Atotonilco, where part of the story is laid - the town was formerly the home of wealthy colonial landholders, hacendados, a fad which explains the beauty of its churches and convents. It is typically Mexican; its Indians have changed little, and life moves slowly, after the fashion of long ago. And for that reason it has been selected by Jose Mojica, the noted opera and movie star, for his new home. A famous bullfighter, Pepe Ortiz, lives in San Miguel, and Stirling Dickinson has built a home upon the mountainside to which he will return to continue his painting of landscapes. inventory #8129 Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Worn and Chipped Dustjacket Block Print Signed by Both Author & Illustrator Inserted In Front.
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