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The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker Publisher Comments A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon The year is 1735. A decade-long expedition to South America is launched by a team of French scientists racing to measure the circumference of the earth and to reveal the mysteries of a little-known... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness by Jordan Goodman Publisher Comments In September 1910, the activist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon jungle on a mission for the British government: to investigate reports of widespread human-rights abuses in the forests along the Putumayo River. Casement was outraged by what he... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Peasants on the Edge: Crop, Cult, and Crisis in the Andes by William P. Mitchell Publisher Comments Throughout Latin America and the rest of the Third World, profound social problems are growing in response to burgeoning populations and unstable economic and political systems. In Peru, terrorist acts by the Shining Path guerilla movement are the most... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $26.62 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness by Jordan Goodman Publisher Comments Documents the 1910 investigation of activist Roger Casement into human-rights abuses committed by industrial baron Julio... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Cocaine: White Gold Rush in Peru by Edmundo Morales Publisher Comments Cocaine: Much is known about the damage done by this drug in the United States; yet how much is actually known of its impact at its source? Though most processed cocaine comes from Colombia, more than half of the coca paste from which the drug is made... (read more) List Price $28.25 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Peruvian Street Lives: Culture, Power, and Economy Among Market Women of Cuzco (Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium) by Linda J Seligmann Publisher Comments For more than twenty years Linda J. Seligmann has walked the streets of Peru in city and countryside alike, talking to the women who work in the informal and open-air markets of the Andean highlands of Cuzco. In this readable ethnography, composed of... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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War of Shadows by Michael F Brown Publisher Comments War of Shadows is the haunting story of a failed uprising in the Peruvian Amazon--told largely by people who were there. Late in 1965, Asháninka Indians, members of one of the Amazon's largest native tribes, joined forces with Marxist... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Birds Without a Nest: A Story of Indian Life and Priestly Oppression in Peru by Clorinda Matto De Turner Synopsis This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Allure of Labor: Workers, Race, and the Making of the Peruvian State by Paulo Drinot Publisher Comments In The Allure of Labor, Paulo Drinot rethinks the social politics of early-twentieth-century Peru. Arguing that industrialization was as much a cultural project as an economic one, he describes how intellectuals and policymakers came to believe that... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness by Jordan Goodman Publisher Comments In September 1910, the activist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon jungle on a mission for the British government: to investigate reports of widespread human-rights abuses in the forests along the Putumayo River. Casement was outraged by what he... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Growing Up in a Culture of Respect: Child Rearing in Highland Peru by Inge Bolin Publisher Comments Far from the mainstream of society, the pastoral community of Chillihuani in the high Peruvian Andes rears children who are well-adjusted, creative, and curious. They exhibit superior social and cognitive skills and maintain an attitude of respect for... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Peruvian Traditions (Library of Latin America Series) by Ricardo Palma Publisher Comments Peruvian author Ricardo Palma (1838-1919) was one of the most popular and imitated writers in Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As head of the National Library in Lima, Palma had access to a rich source of historical... (read more) List Price $32.25 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker Publisher Comments THE TREK THAT LAY AHEAD OF ISABEL stretched more than 3,000 miles. Even if all went well, it would take her more than six months. The route east out of Riobamba would skirt around towering Mt. Tungurahua, known to spit fire and rocks into the sky. It... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Last Days of the Incas (08 Edition) by Kim Macquarrie Publisher Comments In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Spanish Peru 1532-1560: A Social History by James Lockhart Synopsis When Spanish Peru, 1532–1560 was published in 1968, it was acclaimed as an innovative study of the early Spanish presence in Peru. It has since become a classic of the literature in Spanish American social history, important in helping to... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru by Noble David Cook Publisher Comments While it now attracts many tourists, the Colca Valley of Peru’s southern Andes was largely isolated from the outside world until the 1970s, when a passable road was built linking the valley—and its colonial churches, terraced hillsides, and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Peruvian Traditions by Ricardo Palma Publisher Comments Peruvian author Ricardo Palma (1838-1919) was one of the most popular and imitated writers in Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As head of the National Library in Lima, Palma had access to a rich source of historical... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $8.28 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Latin America Readers) by Orin (edt) Starn Publisher Comments Sixteenth-century Spanish soldiers described Peru as a land filled with gold and silver, a place of untold wealth. Nineteenth-century travelers wrote of soaring Andean peaks plunging into luxuriant Amazonian canyons of orchids, pythons, and jaguars. The... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Trade Paper
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41 Seconds to Freedom: An Insider's Account of the Lima Hostage Crisis, 1996-97 by Luis Giampietri Publisher Comments On December 18, 1997, more than six hundred VIPs were attending the birthday party of the Japanese ambassador to Peru at his elegant residence. Political figures, business leaders, and socialites mingled in a tented pavilion on expansive grounds. Then... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor Among Lima's Slaves, 1800-1854 by Christine Hunefeldt Publisher Comments Christine Hünefeldt documents in impressive, moving detail the striving and ingenuity, the hard-won triumphs and bitter defeats of slaves who sought liberation in nineteenth-century urban Peru. Drawing on judicial, ecclesiastical, and notarial... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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