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User Review - blake.rosser - LibraryThingDisappointing, by far the worst book I´ve read of Huxley´s. It´s his travelogue of a trip he took to Guatemala and Mexico in the early 30s. His observations of the culture and people are occasionally ... Read full review
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User Review - Fledgist - LibraryThingHuxley's account of his journey to Guatemala and southern Mexico via the West Indies. This is an idiosyncratic piece of travel writing by a great novelist. Worth reading, though his perspective is very much of its times (the early 1930s) and needs to be taken with care. Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Beyond the Mexique bay Volume 269 of The Albatross modern continental library |
| Author | Aldous Huxley |
| Contributor | Aldous Huxley |
| Publisher | Chatto & Windus, 1934 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 26, 2008 |
| Length | 295 pages |
| Subjects | Caribbean Area Central America Guatemala |
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