Cut Stones and Crossroads: A Journey in the Two Worlds of Peru (Travel Library)
by Ronald Wright
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Ronald Wright has created the very best travel book about Peru, for he has immersed himself in the music and language, as well as the history, politics and monuments of the indigenous Andean cultures of South America, in a way that no other travel writer has yet managed. We get to share in his personal discoveries through the humour & good fellowship of the road, full of entertaining misadventures. But there is never any doubt that there is an ultimate purpose to these journeys: a passionate show more need to bear witness to the truth about the past, after centuries of persecution by an alien ruling class. So through the dense clouds of historical tragedy, Wright excavates hope that a revival of pride and dignity in Andean culture is possible. show lessTags
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A travel journal with a lot of history thrown in - kind of like Simon Winchester's The River at the Center of the World.
You can see the formative path to Wright's works like Stolen Continents, as well as get a strong sense of his raw feelings about the current state of Peru and the history that led to the current situation.
You can see the formative path to Wright's works like Stolen Continents, as well as get a strong sense of his raw feelings about the current state of Peru and the history that led to the current situation.
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- Original publication date
- 1984
- Important places
- Peru
- Original language
- English
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
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