Peru: a country of ancient civilizations that pre-date the Incas, a terrain that embraces Coast, Highlands, and Jungle, a dozen UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and a cuisine that is is being celebrated internationally.
This collection of Travel articles and short Fiction is a journey of discovery and imagination. The first half of the book is devoted to some of the country's extraordinary history and culture with articles exploring the great eathquake of 1745, the contributions of Gustav Eiffel to lighthouse construction, and the importance of the vicuna, the camelid that produces the world's finest and most expensive wool. There are also articles on the pre-Inca civilzations, Bohemian Barranco - where the author lived for six years - and of course, an important chapter focused on Peru's greatest citizen, Paddington Bear.
The second half of the book is devoted to an imaginary Peru: a land of mystery and darkness, the settings for stories of loss and disappearance, resolution and fear. In one, we journey north to the land of the Chachapoyas and meet a man seduced by a stranger along the banks of the Urubamba, in another we go down into the dungeons of the Museum of the Inquisition just before closing time... and in a final story we join a father searching for his disappeared son - missing in the cocaine fields of Central Peru - once home to the Shining Path.
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Höhe: 209 mm
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978-1-80369-206-7 (9781803692067)
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David Stephens was born in 1950, in Woking, Surrey. He graduated in 1972 from the University of Reading with a degree in Modern History & Politics and went on to gain a PGCE at the University of Southampton, picking up his M.Ed. in 1976 and PhD in 1982 - both from the University of Exeter. He has worked in Afghanistan, Laos, Kenya and Sierra Leone as a professor and researcher, spending the past six years in Lima, Peru. He is the eldest of five siblings, son of two teachers, and author of Purely Academic: A Satire, The Disappeared and Under Andean Skies: Living and Writing in Peru. He is a snazzy and natty former Ten Pound Pom who has filled his life with an awful lot of adventure.
