Tongues of the Monte

by J. Frank Dobie

Book Overview

Tongues of the Monte, by Dobie, J. Frank This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292780354
• ISBN13: 9780292780354
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of the great books on Mexico

"The only reality I refuse to accept is life without magic." JFD

J. Frank Dobie and the Spirit of Old Mexico

This is Dobie's finest book, with the possible exception of APACHE GOLD AND YAQUI SILVER, and one of his least known; it is also one of the finest books about Mexico ever written...each time I read it I can smell anew the woodsmoke from the campfires of the old vaqueros,and sense a magical spirit of that land which has forever vanished...the ancient animistic, pre-Christian spirit of Mexico in which every plant, rock, and animal is ferociously alive and not necessarily there for a paltry human's benefit! Dobie caught it in this book and you can feel it and live it for a while. For fans of Castaneda, not least because this may be the earliest book by an American to discuss the nagual at length; the book's character, the sorceror-vaquero Don Encarnacion,who relates a wonderful anecdote about the nagual spirit,could be considered a forerunner of Castaneda's Don Juan. One of those wonderful books in which the narrator, who probably never indulged in anything stronger than a good belt of tequila, manages to convey an authentic spirit of "altered consciousness." Recommended...