The Coyote's Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire

The Coyote's Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire
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Publisher : Tin House Books
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 9781941040218
ISBN-13 : 1941040217
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Book Synopsis The Coyote's Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire by : Kimball Taylor

Download or read book The Coyote's Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire written by Kimball Taylor and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Jon Krakauer and Susan Orlean, The Coyote's Bicycle brings to life a never-before-told phenomenon at our southern border, and the human drama of those who would cross. It wasn’t surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt roads and farmland just across the border from Tijuana, but before long they were arriving in droves. The bikes went from curiosity, to nuisance, to phenomenon. But until they caught the eye of journalist Kimball Taylor, only a small cadre of human smugglers?coyotes?and migrants could say how or why they’d gotten there.This is the story of 7,000 bikes that made an incredible journey and one young man from Oaxaca who arrived at the border with nothing, built a small empire, and then vanished. Taylor follows the trail of the border bikes through some of society’s most powerful institutions, and, with the help of an unlikely source, he reconstructs the rise of one of Tijuana’s most innovative coyotes. Touching on immigration and globalization, as well as the history of the US/Mexico border, The Coyote’s Bicycle is at once an immersive investigation of an outrageous occurrence and a true-crime, rags-to-riches story.


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