Carter Wilson

"Vividly re-creates one of the most extraordinary Indian revitalization movements in Latin American history. . . . the first effort I have seen to use fiction as a medium for reconstructing an important historical event from the perspective of a participant group whose only record of it is oral. . . . a kind of people's history."—

-Gary Gossen, American Anthropologist

Hidden in the Blood explores the daily  lives of staff and patients at a clinic where three-quarters of HIV-positive people in the region are treated.  Readers will come to know these patients, who come from a soberingly wide range of social and economic backgrounds—middle-aged fathers, married couples, transvestites, truck drivers, folklore dancers, a young woman infected by a blood transfusion during plastic surgery.  In readable, lucid prose, Wilson recounts the heroic efforts of the clinic staff—doctors such as Alejandro Guerrero and Russell Rodriguez and nurses like José Manuel Polanco—as they struggle to treat their SIDA patients…. Through the stories of these brave, caring staff members, readers will find evidence to dispel the common notion that third-World medicine is a chamber of horrors.

When winter comes n northern Canada and the ice is firm and thick, the Netsilik Inuit pack up their belongings and move out onto the frozen waters of Pelly Bay.  At night in the great igloo there are feasts and songs and games.  But winter is a time of hardship, too, when survival depends upon helping one another.  Men must hunt and work well together in the seal camp, and when they do the Inuit say they are men on firm ice.

These remarkable stories give us a profound knowledge of how things were among the Netsilik  before outsider brought them metal tools and new ways.  William Berry's illustrations, authentic, stark, and beautiful in their simplicity, match perfectly the spirit of this distinguished book.

A Green Tree and a Dry Tree tells the story of the Chiapas War of the Castes rebellion, led by a charismatic Tsotsil visionary and the encouragements of religious "talking saints" figures.

"Without the intrusion of theory and without even a shadow of jargon, Mr. Wilson has given his book sociological validity.  At the same time, it remains a work of poetic truth."

—New York Times Book Review

"I have read Treasures on Earth with great enjoyment and admiration.  Most of all, I admire the book for its extraordinarily subtle study of a friendship between two people of widely different cultures—it can stand comparison with Forster's somewhat similar study in A Passage to India.  My congratulations to Carter Wilson."

–Christopher Isherwood.

"Its power is so great we may be witnessing the birth of a classic."

–Boston Globe