The Panama Hat Trail

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National Geographic Society, 1986 - Ecuador - 288 pages
Tony Miller goes on a lively and quixotic quest that takes him from Ecuador to Colombia and finally to a hat shop in San Diego, whch reveals the making and marketing of a Panama hat from the basement of the third world to the penthouse of the first. Along the way, he encounters cultures in collision, raw capitalism and "bus-plunge highways". In the end, the only thing that eludes Miller's grasp is a drnkable cup of coffee.

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