Whispers of My Blood

Front Cover
iUniverse, Aug 20, 2010 - Biography & Autobiography - 228 pages
Mickey Mahaffey is a singular American explorer, a fearless saunterer across our modern-day dilemmas of faith and faithlessness, who has written a deeply personal and poetic memoir of his extraordinary life.

Jeff Biggers, author of The United States of Appalachia, and In the Sierra Madre

 

Contents

Chapter One
1
Chapter Two
17
Chapter Three
37
Chapter Four
51
Chapter Five
65
Chapter Six
83
Chapter Seven
99
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

About the author (2010)

A natural storyteller and orator, Mickey Mahaffey has put his oral tradition on paper only intermittently as a guest newspaper columnist before this memoir. Born in Hendersonville, North Carolina, in 1953, he remains based in his native territory, dividing his time between Asheville and its Blue Ridge Mountains environs and his homeof-the-heart in Mexico’s Copper Canyon and Chihuahua City. His involvement with the Raramuri Indians of Mexico led him to found the School of the Traveler (www.schoolofthetraveler.com) in 1997, offering guided journeys in both the Copper Canyon and the Blue Ridge Mountains—traveling by foot with minimal gear. His participation in the Semanta Santa ritual with the Raramuri became the subject of a documentary film, Being the Diablo, which will be released in 2010. Mickey is currently producing a documentary of his own about the Raramuri ultramarathon runners.

Bibliographic information