Life and death in the Andes
Subtitle: on the trail of bandits, heroes, and revolutionaries
By: Kim MacQuarrie
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9781439168899
Subjects: Death; Description and travel; Revolutionaries; Outlaws; Social conditions; Heroes; Biography; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references  (pages [387]-398) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapters & Countries Where Stories Take Place; title: 1. The Hunt for Pablo Escobar and the Search For El Dorado (Colombia); title: 2. Evolution & Denial in the Galapagos (Ecuador); title: 3. Death in the Andes : The Capture of Peru's Shining Path Leader, Abimael Guzman (Peru); title: 4. The Rise & Fall of Hiram Bingham, Controversial Discoverer of Machu Picchu (Peru); title: 5. Ice Maidens, Volcanoes & Incas (Peru); title: 6. The Kon-Tiki Voyage, White Gods, and the Floating Islands of Titicaca Lake (Peru and Bolivia); title: 7. The End of Che Guevara (Bolivia); title: 8. The Final Days of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (Bolivia); title: 9. Darwin, the Last Yámana, and the Uttermost Part of the Earth (Chile & Argentina).