Urban Circus: Travels with Mexico's Malabaristas

By Catriona Rainsford, Athena Dixon, E.J. Koh

The story opens in Chihuahua, North Mexico, with a chance meeting with a group of itinerant Mexican street performers. Entranced by their stories and free-roaming lifestyle, the author accompanies them on a two-year, hand-to-mouth journey across Mexico, learning to live off nothing more than a few performance skills, initiative, and the kindness of strangers. Compelling, humorous, sometimes violent, and full of wonderful descriptions of life on the road, this is also a discussion of the morality of hand-to-mouth travel andoffers an insight into the day-to-day experiences of Mexico's urban poor.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841624446
• ISBN13: 9781841624440
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.7"