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A Bear Called Paddington

A Bear Called Paddington
  • Author(s): Michael Bond, Peggy Fortnum (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): London, Peru
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

“A bear on Paddington Station?” said Mrs Brown in amazement. “Don’t be silly – there can’t be.” Paddington Bear had travelled all the way from Darkest Peru when the Brown family first met him on Paddington station. Since then...

A Good Death

A Good Death
  • Author(s): H L Davis
  • 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....

Along the Inca Road

Along the Inca Road
  • Author(s): Karin Muller
  • 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

Andina: The Heart of Peruvian Food
  • Author(s): Martin Morales
  • 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...

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
  • Author(s): Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Location(s): Peru
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Set in Peru during the 1950s, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee. Mario, an aspiring writer, works at a radio station that broadcasts,...

Behind Inca Walls: A Peace Corps Memoir

Behind Inca Walls: A Peace Corps Memoir
  • Author(s): Evelyn Kohl LaTorre
  • Location(s): Peru
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s

At twenty-one, Evelyn is naïve about life and love. Raised in a small Montana town, she moves at age sixteen with her devout Catholic family to California. There, she is drawn to Latino culture when she works among the...

Burial Ground

Burial Ground
  • Author(s): Michael McBride
  • Location(s): Peru
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When the body of Hunter Gearhardt washes up on the banks of a seasonal river outside of Pomacochas, Peru, with only samples of vegetation, a handful of feathers, two black- and gray-streaked rocks, and a golden headdress of indeterminate...

Captain Pantoja and the Special Service

Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
  • Author(s): Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Location(s): Peru
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

In this delightful farce, the prim and proper Captain Pantoja is sent to Peru’s Amazon frontier on a secret Army mission – he must find females for the amorous recruits. Yet complications arise as word of his achievements starts...

Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend

Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend
  • Author(s): Patrick Symmes
  • 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...

Death in the Andes

Death in the Andes
  • Author(s): Mario Vargas Llosa
  • 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...

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