Travel and holiday.
Miracle in the Andes, a first-person account of the crash and its aftermath, is more than a riveting tale of true-life adventure; it is a revealing look at life at the edge of death and a meditation on the limitless redemptive power of love ...
An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors.
... was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. —T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom CONTENTS Preface The Hunt for Pablo Escobar and the Search.
Describes the geography, climate, and ecology of the Andes and discusses their role in history and culture, the life of the people that live there, and their contemporary economic uses.
"A masterly combination of ethnographic reporting with personal empathy and rare poetic insight.
In contrast , in Loja Province in southern Ecuador a podocarp forest placed in a national park has not been protected from anthropogenic fire , which has consumed portions of the timberline woodland ( Keating 1997 ) .
The volume emerges from an innovative programme of conferences and symposia conceived explicitly to foster awareness, discussion and co-operation across the divides between disciplines.
Set in an isolated, rundown community in the Peruvian Andes, Vargas Llosa's novel tells the story of a series of mysterious disappearances involving the Shining Path guerrillas and a local couple performing cannibalistic sacrifices with ...
Describes how women can use dance to improve physical and spiritual health
The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes.