PRE - COLUMBIAN MEXICO PLANS, PITFALLS, AND PERILS

About the Book

“Pre - Columbian Mexico - Plans, Pitfalls, and Perils” is historical fiction and continues the adventures and escapades of Professor Mike Gaherty, this time along with colleague - girlfriend Amy Carrier, on a travel, research trip to Mexico. The goal is to scope out and research Mexico for a possible Adventure Travel expedition, its first all on land, and in partnership with New York Times Travel. Surprises come, unexpected opposition to foreign tourism and travel in Mexico. Mike and Amy are haunted by vestiges of Pre - Columbian gods, peoples and places.

About the Author

Mark J. Curran is a retired professor from Arizona State University where he worked from 1968 to 2011. This is his 25th book with Trafford Publishing. Sixteen books deal with his research specialty, Brazil’s “Literatura Popular em Verso” or the “Literatura de Cordel.” Several under the rubric “Stories I Told My Students” are based on classes taught at A.S.U. and deal with Brazil, Columbia, Guatemala, Mexico, Portugal and Spain. Two are autobiographical - “The Farm” and “Coming of Age with the Jesuits.” Experiments in fiction based on the farm in Abilene, Kansas are “A Rural Odyssey I and II.” More fiction based on the author’s time in Brazil is the trilogy “Letters from Brazil I, II, and III.” A retirement experience on the National Geographic Explorer - Lindblad Expeditions is “A Professor Takes to the Sea I and II. “Around Brazil on the ‘International Explorer’ - A Fictional Panegyric” is a fun, travel adventure. Now, “Pre - Columbian Mexico - Plans, Pitfalls, and Perils” continues such adventure.