Dead in Their Tracks: Crossing America's Desert Borderlands

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Summary: Fabulous.
Review: God, it looks so good. What a wonderful layout. The pictures look fabulous.

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Summary: Una investigacion documental seria - impactante!
Review: HISTORIAS DE VIDA. JOHN ANNERINO. ENCUENTRA LA REALIDAD NEGADA. La Manda Que Se Hizo Reportaje. "...Con una investigacion documental seria, impactantes fotografias y comentarios propios, este texto es algo mas que una denuncia, John lo define como: "Un testimonio de las personas que han muerto al cruzar la frontera, es una memoria porque tambien vienen en el libro fechas, lugares y datos de como murieron." La fotografia dejo de ser su forma de vida, se convirto en una necesidad de transmitar el dolor, el sufrimiento de los mexicanos y su valentia de cruzar hacia el otro lado: "Ellos son unos heroes para mi, pues buscan sacar adelante a sus familias y hacen trabajo pesado que los americanos rechazan hacer." Su voz cambio de tono, de nuevo su mirada de hizo clara, sus manos temblaron un tanto emocionadas, sus palabras reclamaron una repuesta: "Por que la vida es diferente para los personas? Todos somos iguales, la vida de una estrella de cine no es mas importante que un mexicano pobre. La prensa de Estados Unidos quiere estrellas de peliculas, de musica, de politicos, matanzas en las escuelas, problemas en todos partes del mundo, pero cuando se trata de los mexicanos que mueren en terrenos estadounidenses, guarda silencio..." -El Independiente

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Summary: "An excellant and oustanding book"-Mary Garcia,Sept.3,1999.
Review: I am Mary H. Garcia. I am very proud to say that DEAD IN THEIR TRACKS made me aware of John's sensitivity. A book like this one needed to be written. He gives us information of our Hispanic culture. He took us thru a journey that none of us women or men could sustain or endure. This book took us thru burning deserts of Arizona. Just to see my people endure La Migra - hunger, thirst, made me shiver with pain for my people - wishing I could be there for them. The photos of skeletons, my people dying in the sun, and the work that John did was overwhelming. Thank you John Annerino for bringing reality to life! An excellant and outstanding book. John Annerino is a very courageous man.

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Summary: Remarkable.
Review: I just finished DEAD IN THEIR TRACKS, and it is remarkable. This is something very dear to my heart. I cried all the way home on the flight back from Mexico, D.F.

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Summary: what men do to feed their loved ones
Review: I kept thinking of the Donner party and their fight for survival. Then, I keep thinking all the Mexican people want is a job. Finally, I think of my children who employ Mexican workers because of thier work ethic. Now more than ever I'll appreciate how they came to the South West. My heart is heavy with shame that we even have borders in the first place. Why can't we share a little of the wealth? Perhaps we don't need all that we have? I can't get the thought of broken, lives, bodies, and spirits out of my mind? The writers words were so vidid, and yet so unhyped, that'ts talent to the core. I couldn't have written without taking a strong position. I admire his approach.

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Summary: Inspirational.
Review: I really enjoyed DEAD IN THEIR TRACKS. I finished it in like 4 days. It was inspirational.

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Summary: BRAVO!
Review: Immigration. What do we really know about immigrants as people - especially the obstacles they face and the hazards they must endure to reach the United States? No one wants to examine this terrible situation, and the press tries to ignore it. John Annerino is a brave photojournalist who wants to open the eyes of this country and the eyes of Mexico. In Annerino's book, DEAD IN THEIR TRACKS: Crossing America's Desert Borderlands, he writes of crossing the Arizona desert along the historic route called the Camino del Diablo, (Road of the Devil), during the summer. Annerino accompanied 4 Mexican farm workers on a grueling struggle across the desert to get into this country. Annerino risked his own life to experience the killing heat migrants endure to cross the desert, and at one point writes of his and his companion's slim chances of surviving their journey, "We would all die like dogs in a killing ground that has claimed hundreds - perhaps thousands of their countrymen." Annerino not only witnesses and endures the hazards and rigors of his companions, but he also photographed many of the people who died in the middle of the desert. He writes graphically of one dead man: "His mouth was still open from the horror, because no one heard him gasping or saw him dying at the finish line to America's Killing Ground." How long will we permit this tragic situation to continue? One brave man cared enough for people to risk his own life to open our eyes with his camera and pen - John Annerino. And you need to read his book, DEAD IN THEIR TRACKS, to understand the human toll and suffering on our borders, and the lives that are lost among those who flee the poverty of Mexico lured by the same American Dream that brought me here. Why? To quote Annerino, "Because they're out there dying right now."

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Summary: It's a wonderful tribute to U.S.Border Patrol trackers!
Review: Impressive. Annerino has out done himself with this one. This book is a wonderful tribute to U.S. Border Patrol trackers! I thought so much of this book that I went on line and ordered 3 more copies from amazon.com for my father and friends. My dad retired as a Border Patrol pilot, and he will be able to relate to a lot of things mentioned in this book. So far this year we already have had one death in the desert and numerous rescues. I fear this summer will be a bad one. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this book.

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Summary: Following is a review from the June 6 Arizona Daily Star:
Review: In "Dead in Their Tracks: Crossing America's Desert Borderlands" (Four Walls Eight Windows, $22), photojournalist John Annerino has included his gut-wrenching account of crossing the Yuma desert in August with four Mexican nationals. He concludes with a description of his physical condition: "...my once lean legs now hideously swollen with edema and my body so deprived of fluid I will not urinate for another two days." Annerino weaves into his chapters the accounts of other desert crossings, beginning in 1540 with Melchior Diaz and continuing through with Eusebio Kino (1699) and Juan Bautista de Anza (1774). The Devil's Highway skirting the Arizona-Mexican border claimed many lives during the Gold Rush years of 1850-1860. The chapter "In Memoriam" carries reports of deaths through 1998."

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Summary: Beautiful and deeply moving.
Review: Not only does Annerino write beautifully, but the stories he told provide a much-needed human perspective on migrants who risk their lives to come here from Mexico. Those who are critical of migrant workers seem not to realize that they are hard-working, honest people who are dedicated to feeding their families by doing work Americans don't want to do. Annerino's account of the "killing fields" was deeply moving.