title: Andes to the Amazon: Seven Journeys in Mexico, Central and South America
author: Bruce B. Junek
description: Bruce Junek and Tass Thacker have spent their lives exploring the remote regions of the world. Bruce has also written "The Road of Dreams" about their twenty-six month bicycle trip around the world. Bruce and Tass support their adventurous lifestyle by speaking and giving slide presentations in schools.
zlib_text: ## THE SOUTH AMERICAN SERIES
  
  #### EDITED BY MARTIN HUME, M.A.
  
    
  
  idyll of mexico  
  ---  
  AN IDYLL OF MEXICO: INDIAN CARRIERS, RUINED CHURCH, AND SNOW-CLAD PEAK OF
  ORIZABA.  
    
    
  
  # MEXICO
  
  ### ITS ANCIENT AND MODERN CIVILISATION  
  HISTORY AND POLITICAL CONDITIONS  
  TOPOGRAPHY AND NATURAL RESOURCES  
  INDUSTRIES AND GENERAL DEVELOPMENT
  
    
    
  
  BY
  
  ## C. REGINALD ENOCK, F.R.G.S.
  
  CIVIL AND MINING ENGINEER  
  AUTHOR OF "PERU" AND "THE ANDES AND THE AMAZON"
  
    
  
  WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
  
  ### MARTIN HUME, M.A.
  
    
  
  WITH A MAP AND SEVENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS
  
    
  
  #### NEW YORK
  
  ### CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
  
    
  
  _First Edition_ |  1909  
  ---|---  
  _Second Impression_ |  1910  
  _Third Impression_ |  1912  
  _Fourth Impression_ |  1914  
  _Fifth Impression_ |  1919  
    
    
  
  _(All rights reserved)_  
  PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
  
    
  
  ## PREFACE
  
    
  
  The purpose of this work is to treat of Mexico as a topographical and
  political entity, based upon a study of the country from travel and
  observation; a m