Here is a link to the book (http://www.amazon.com/Miles-Nowhere-Americas-Contemporary-Fr...), an initial google search turns up unrelated things.
Pity there's no Kindle version:-/
If you like geography, this book is a good read. It's a bit dated, having been written in the early 1990s, but this, in my opinion, turns out to be a good thing. It gives us some great glimpses of how isolated these communities were and I'm sure the Internet has since changed this considerably.