Introduction

Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City; a pre-Hispanic history

1. Apocalypse

Veracruz to Mexico City; the conquest of Mexico by Cortes

2. The Man with Fire

Mexico City to Guadalajara: the colonial world and the war for independence

3. So Far from God

Guadalajara to Mexicali; the early republic and the war with the United States

4. In the Silence of the Canyon

Los Mochis to Chihuahua; The Copper Canyon, the Tarahumara

5. Yesterday's Train

Chihuahua to Aguascalientes (the 1994 election); La Reforma, Emperor Maximilian and the Portfiriato

6. Feast of Death

Mexico City to Oaxaca (the Day of the Dead); the revolution

7. Sand Castles

Cancun to Palenque; President Lazaro Cardenas, and foreigners in Mexico

8. The Migration of the Butterflies

Mexico City to Playa Azul (the Day of the Virgin); the modern PRI regime to the student massacre of 1968

9. Faces to the Sun

Tapachula to Tuxtla Gutierrez (a letter from Marcos); 1968 to the present

Epilogue

The Return of Quetzalcoatl.