The Forests of the Night

by J.P.S. Brown and Jean-Louis Curtis

Book Overview

Academicians have universally applauded this book as a true and very informative document on Mexico's Sierra Madre and it's hardy people and animals. For forty years J.P.S. Brown rode the horseshoe... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0006ASUME
• Release Date: January 1951
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

a flat-out masterpiece

Back in print at last, The Forests of the Night may well be the best novel ever written about the greater American southwest. It has long enjoyed a cult status among writers for its clean biting prose and deep understanding of life, human and non-human, in the lawless backcountry of the Sierra Madre, where the author spent many years on horseback buying cattle and prospecting for gold.