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
early-twentieth-century American adventurer Hiram Bingham told of
the raging rivers and the wild jungles he traversed on his way to
rediscovering the "Lost City of the Incas," Machu Picchu. Seventy
years later, news crews from ABC and CBS traveled to Peru to report
on merciless terrorists, starving peasants, and Colombian drug
runners in the "white gold" rush of the coca trade. As often as
not, Peru has been portrayed in broad extremes: as the land of the
richest treasures, the bloodiest conquest, the most poignant
ballads, and the most violent revolutionaries. This revised and
updated second edition of the bestselling" Peru Reader "offers a
deeper understanding of the complex country that lies behind these
claims.
Unparalleled in scope, the volume covers Peru's history from its
extraordinary pre-Columbian civilizations to its citizens'
twenty-first-century struggles to achieve dignity and justice in a
multicultural nation where Andean, African, Amazonian, Asian, and
European traditions meet. The collection presents a vast array of
essays, folklore, historical documents, poetry, songs, short
stories, autobiographical accounts, and photographs. Works by
contemporary Peruvian intellectuals and politicians appear
alongside accounts of those whose voices are less often
heard--peasants, street vendors, maids, Amazonian Indians, and
African-Peruvians. Including some of the most insightful pieces of
Western journalism and scholarship about Peru, the selections
provide the traveler and specialist alike with a thorough
introduction to the country's astonishing past and challenging
present.
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