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Author MacQuarrie, Kim, author

Title Life and Death in the Andes : On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries / Kim MacQuarrie

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 UM Orono Stacks  F2212 .M25 2015    AVAILABLE  
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
Phys Descr xx, 427 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), photographs, portraits ; 24 cm
Note Text in English
Summary "Kim MacQuarrie tells great stories of South America's history, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to the last survivor of an Indian tribe, all of these stories set in the Andes Mountains"-- Provided by publisher
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-398) and index
Contents Chapters & Countries Where Stories Take Place -- 1. The Hunt for Pablo Escobar and the Search For El Dorado (Colombia) -- 2. Evolution & Denial in the Galapagos (Ecuador) -- 3. Death in the Andes : The Capture of Peru's Shining Path Leader, Abimael Guzman (Peru) -- 4. The Rise & Fall of Hiram Bingham, Controversial Discoverer of Machu Picchu (Peru) -- 5. Ice Maidens, Volcanoes & Incas (Peru) -- 6. The Kon Tiki Voyage, White Gods, and the Floating Islands of Titicaca Lake (Peru & Bolivia) -- 7. The End of Che Guevara (Bolivia) -- 8. The Final Days of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (Bolivia) -- 9. Darwin, the Last Yámana, and the Uttermost Part of the Earth (Chile & Argentina)
Subject Andes Region -- History
Andes Region -- Biography
Andes Region -- Description and travel
Andes Region -- Social conditions
Outlaws -- Andes Region -- Biography
Heroes -- Andes Region -- Biography
Revolutionaries -- Andes Region -- Biography
Death -- Andes Region -- History
OCLC # 919451696
ISBN # 9781439168899
143916889X