Title: legends of the non-editor
Product review: As many other reviewers note, Shoumatoff's powerful writing and great notes of research are really derailed in many parts here, beset with numerous inaccuracies -- the parts on the Sonoran Desert and the O'odham people, for example, as well as the Tarahumara and the Sierra Madre, beg for a local copy editor. It's really a shame; there's a lot to like in this book, and I would suggest reading it...but the usually astute Shoumatoff has set himself up as a typical, loose cannon travel writer, coming to some dubious conclusions about places he only knows as a short-sided visitor.
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