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Dead In Their Tracks: Crossing America's Desert Borderlands

John Annerino
Edition: pb
ISBN: 9781568582672
Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows
Release Date: 2008-02-20
ITEM OVERVIEW
On assignment for Newsweek, Annerino journeyed deep into one of the least hospitable spots on the planet—the scorched 4,100 square mile "empty quarter" that straddles Mexico and Arizona. There he met four Mexican nationals determined to cross a 130 mile trail illegally to find work to feed their families. Dead In Their Tracks is a record of that experience. Annerino's unflinching camera and sensitive text capture the lives of these men, along with the ranchers, Border Patrol trackers, and drug runners whose livelihoods also depend on this grim realm. Dead In Their Tracks' unforgettable images of anonymous travelers who may survive, and the bleached bones of those who did not, show the ultimate price sometimes exacted by an unforgiving nature—and by those who make policy in this area.