From Library Journal
Machu Picchu is one of the most stunning archaeological sites on Earth. Located in the heart of the Andes in Peru, this five-centuries-old Incan relic attracts some 300,000 tourists yearly. Yet the significance of the site itself is difficult to unravel without a lot of personal knowledge or a comprehensive guidebook. Wright, who has studied the site for 25 ...

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About the Author
Barry Brukoff is a photographer and designer whose books include The Enigma of Stonehenge with John Fowles, Morocco with Paul Bowles, and Greece: Land of Light with Nicholas Gage.

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Inside Flap Copy
Take the early train to Machu Picchu or soar in a hot air balloon and drift over the Sacred Valley of the Incas. There are hundreds of ways to wake up in this country, and you'll want to try more than one! Before leaving on your adventure to Peru, be sure to pack your Fodor's guide to ensure you don't miss a thing!

The San Francisco Chronicle sums it up b...

From the Back Cover
Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer. And avoid tourist traps. At Frommer’s, we use 150 outspoken travel experts around the world to help you make the right choices. Frommer’s. Your guide to a world of travel experience.

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The award-winning Footprint Handbooks series has been capturing worldwide attention and admiration for 75 years! Now this excellent series has been revamped to better serve world travelers. With its larger typeface, color sections and maps, bigger trim size, and travel-tough covers, Footprint Handbooks are more durable and easier to use. The series still is the best resou...

From Publishers Weekly
Being the type of guy who hangs about at shrunken head auctions, sleeps in hotel rooms washed in human blood and traverses the U.S. for a month without ever leaving an airport, Shah (Sorcerer's Apprentice) is comfortable in strange company. So when a fellow shrunken head devotee sends him a rust-colored feather dipped in blood and tells him to go in search...

Excerpted from The Rough Guide to Peru by Dilwyn Jenkins. Copyright © 2003. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
WHERE TO GO With each region offering so many different attractions, it’s hard to generalize about the places you should visit first: the specific attractions of each part of Peru are discussed in greater detail in the chapter highlights and ...

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Book Description
Long out of print, this is a riveting firsthand account of Leonard Clark’s search for the legendary lost Seven Cities of Cibola — reputedly home to enormous reserves of gold — in the rain forest east of the Peruvian Andes. A former U.S. Army intelligence officer, Clark is joined on his expedition by Inez Pokorny, a gutsy, multilingual female explo...

About the Author
ITMB Publishing (International Travel Maps and Books) of Vancouver, Canada, has published detailed reference and travel maps of countries, regions, and cities around the world since 1985. The company's titles include many that are unique or the first of their kind, including the first commercially available travel map of South America.

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Book Description
At the heart of the ancient Inca empire, and in the shadow of the mighty Andes, Peru and Bolivia boast some of the world's most rewarding long-distance treks. Striking scenery and rich history cannot fail to stimulate and inspire the adventurous traveler. For almost three decades, Peru and Bolivia: The Bradt Trekking Guide has been the classic hikers' handbook. ...

Book Description
Laminated road and travel map with city plans and historic sites. Scale 1:1,750,000.

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Language Notes
Text: English, German, French, Spanish

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Book Description
One of over 400 titles in the Insight series,

Insight Guide Peru. This 358-page book includes a section detailing Peru's history, 9 features covering the country's life and culture, ranging from the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes to the fusion of Catholic, Inca and early agricultural rites, a region by region visitor's guide to the sights, and a compreh...

Back Cover Copy
Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, at the heart of the old Inca Empire, are the three most frequently visited countries in South America and together form a natural circuit for backpackers. From the grandeur of the snow capped Andes to the Amazon rainforests and Darwin's Galapagos Islands, there is something for everyone: colorful festivals, the mystery of lost civilizat...

Synopsis
The six friends who set off to climb in the Andes in the autumn of 1971 were as varied and remarkable as the characters in a novel. The expedition was led by Robin Fedden, the writer and poet, and his wife there was a Swiss international skier and jeweller, a social anthropologist from Provence who had fought in the French Resistance and a Nottinghamshire farming squire...

About the Author
Charles Brod lived and worked for over a year in the Cuzco area researching and writing Apus & Incas.

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From Publishers Weekly
Trained in Western psychology, Villoldo went to Peru, became a Quechua shaman's apprentice, took hallucinogens and had visionary experiences in the shadow of Inca ruins. Combining adventure, journal jottings, philosophical reflections and a comparison of Western psychotherapy with the shamanic system of multiple realities, this lyric, soul-searching odysse...

Synopsis
A detailed physical map with hillshading and layer colouring showing the main transportation links and tourist features of Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. The area covered extends from the Pacific coast in the west to the Andes and the Brazilian border in the east and to Chile and Argentina in the south. A transport links map and distance chart is provided along with a compr...

Language Notes
Text: English, Spanish

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