Torrid Zone
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Torrid Zone is a magical and steamy collection of tales from the swamps and bayous of the deepest South - the American Gulf Coast. In his first work of fiction, naturalist and travel writer Jonathan Maslow takes readers on a riotous tour of human geography in the land of Mardi Gras and pirates' treasure. Meet Cesar Fuentes, last of the Tampa cigar-factory lectors, the readers who turned the toilsome job of hand-rolling cigars into a dangerous political education.
No better than she needs to be, Weekee Wachee's "live mermaid," Stevie Rae, tells her hard-luck story in a Gulf Coast blues bar at 3:00 A.M. Captain Babba, a one-legged Vietnam vet, spends his days ferrying tourists to see the whooping cranes of the Texas Gulf Coast until, one day, a Vietnamese tour group shows him a part of the coast no one alive has ever seen.
And Estavanico, a saucy African slave, chronicles the travails of a sixteenth-century expedition to the New World gone wrong, playing Sancho Panza to his Conquistador's Don Quixote.
No better than she needs to be, Weekee Wachee's "live mermaid," Stevie Rae, tells her hard-luck story in a Gulf Coast blues bar at 3:00 A.M. Captain Babba, a one-legged Vietnam vet, spends his days ferrying tourists to see the whooping cranes of the Texas Gulf Coast until, one day, a Vietnamese tour group shows him a part of the coast no one alive has ever seen.
And Estavanico, a saucy African slave, chronicles the travails of a sixteenth-century expedition to the New World gone wrong, playing Sancho Panza to his Conquistador's Don Quixote.
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