The Panama Hat Trail
<DIV>Critically acclaimed author Tom Miller reveals the making and marketing of one Panama hat, from the straw fields of Ecuador’s coastal lowland to a hat shop in Southern California. Along the way, the hat becomes a literary device allowing Miller to give us his impressions from the tributaries of the Amazon to the mountainsides of the Andes. <I>The Panama Hat Trail</I> is at once a study in global economics and a lively travelogue.<BR />  </DIV>