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- Location(s): Cusco, Cambridgeshire
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
‘A good death is better than a bad conscience,’ said Sophie. 1983 – Georgie, Theo, Sophie and Helena, four disparate young Cambridge undergraduates, set out to scale Ausangate, one of the highest and most sacred peaks in the Andes....
- Location(s): Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
In its heyday, the Royal Inca Highway was an extraordinary feat of engineering. Meriting comparisons to the Great Wall of China, legend has it that the route was built not by men, but by the gods. An essential component...
Andina: The Heart of Peruvian Food
- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Food and Drink
- Era(s): Modern
Andina is the cuisine of the Andes of Peru. Welcome to one of the most contemporary yet ancient cuisines in the world. Featuring over 110 delicious and unfussy recipes accompanied by fascinating stories, dazzling photography and beautiful paintings, Andina...
Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend
- Location(s): Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1952 and early 1990's
In 1952 Ernesto Guevara and a friend took a motorcycle journey across the back roads of South America. During that journey Ernesto transformed into Che Guevara. About 40 years later Patrick Symmes followed the same route, for the most...
- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 20th Century
In an isolated community in the Peruvian Andes, a series of mysterious disappearances has occurred. Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tomás believe the Shining Path guerrillas are responsible, but the townspeople have their own ideas about the forces...