Bella Jones and Kathleen Collins are as close as sisters and that's how they want things to stay. But fate intervenes. Kathleen's brothers have disappeared, they traveled from New York on the Orphan Train and nobody has heard from them since. She can't shed her gut feeling something awful has happ
The Panama Hat Trail
✍ Scribed by Tom Miller
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 215 KB
- Edition
- 2017 edition with new preface by author
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
Critically acclaimed author Tom Miller reveals the making and marketing of one Panama hat, from the straw fields of Ecuador's coastal lowland to a hat shop in Southern California. Along the way, the hat becomes a literary device allowing Miller to give us his impressions from the tributaries of the Amazon to the mountainsides of the Andes. The Panama Hat Trail is at once a study in global economics and a lively travelogue.
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