The Coyote's Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and

The Coyote's Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire

For readers of Jon Krakauer and Susan Orlean, The Coyote's Bicycle brings to life a never-before-told phenomenon at our southern border, and the human drama of those that would cross.
It wasnâ€™t surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt roads and farmland just across the border from Tijuana, but before long they were arriving in droves. The bikes went from curiosity, to nuisance, to phenomenon. But until they caught the eye of journalist Kimball Taylor, only a small cadre of human smugglersâ€•coyotesâ€•and migrants could say how or why theyâ€™d gotten there. And only through Taylorâ€™s obsession did another curious migratory pattern emerge: the bicyclesâ€™ movement through the black market, Hollywood, the prison system, and the military-industrial complex.Â ThisÂ is the story of 7,000 bikes that made an incredible journey and one young man from Oaxaca who arrived at the border with nothing, built a small empire, and then vanished. Taylor follows the trail of the border bikes through some of societyâ€™s most powerful institutions, and, with the help of an unlikely source, he reconstructs the rise of one of Tijuanaâ€™s most innovativeÂ coyotes. Touching on immigration and globalization, as well as the history of the US/Mexico border,TheÂ Coyoteâ€™s BicycleÂ is at once an immersive investigation of an outrageous occurrence and a true-crime, rags-to-riches story.

Country	USA
Author	Kimball Taylor
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	Tin House Books
EAN	9781941040201
Edition	1
Feature	Tin House Books
ISBN	9781941040201
Label	Tin House Books
Manufacturer	Tin House Books
MPN	9781941040201
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	380
PartNumber	9781941040201
PublicationDate	2016-02-22
Publisher	Tin House Books
Studio	Tin House Books
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Coyote's Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire

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