Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras

   There are few travel writers  like Harry Franck. Only Paul Theroux and a few others come close in the modern day. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, like all Franck books, is a beautifully written journey through a world that is no longer here. It's time travel in a way, but it helps the thoughtful reader to look both backwards and forwards with more understanding.    Harry Frank's journey down the length of Mexico to Central America in 1916 shows the region as it was during the era of the Mexican Revolution, when most men south of the border carried weapons in self defense and where an American may not always be respected.  He 'tramped' down there on foot, by train, carriage, even via mule and along the way wrote very descriptive and entertaining narratives of the towns and people with whom he crossed. Even with run-ins with the Guatemalan Army or Mexican mine work, Franck maintains  lighthearted yet thoughtful descriptions of Mexico and Central America in the early 1900s...(Amazon reviews)