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Cut Stones & Crossroads

Cut Stones & Crossroads

A Journey in the Two Worlds of Peru

by Ronald Wright
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/10/2020
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Ronald Wright has created the very best travel book about Peru, for he has immersed himself in the music and language, as well as the history, politics and monuments of the indigenous Andean cultures of South America, in a way that no other travel writer has yet managed.

We get to share in his personal discoveries through the humour and good fellowship of the road, full of entertaining misadventures. But there is never any doubt that there is an ultimate purpose to these journeys: a passionate need to bear witness to the truth about the past, after centuries of persecution by an alien ruling class. So through the dense clouds of historical tragedy, Wright excavates hope that a revival of pride and dignity in Andean culture is possible.

ISBN:
9781780601571
9781780601571
Category:
Travel & holiday
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-10-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Eland Publishing Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
210x140mm

"A superb travel writer...vivid historical imagination...extraordinarily perceptive...a literary master craftsman."
Dervla Murphy

"Ronald Wright is a superb travel writer with a vivid historical imagination. The soundness and range of Wright’s knowledge..weave a fascinating though melancholy tapestry. Extraordinarily perceptive."
TLS

"The best modern travel book on Peru that I know."
John Hemming

Ronald Wright

Ronald Wright is the author of ten books of fiction, history, essays and travel published in eighteen languages and more than forty countries. His first novel, A Scientific Romance, won Britan's David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen as a book of the year by the Sunday Times and the New York Times.

Wright's CBC Massey Lectures, A Short History of Progress, won the Libris Award for Nonfiction Book of the Year and inspired Martin Scorsese's 2011 documentary film Surviving Progress. His other bestsellers include Time Among the Maya and Stolen Continents, chosen as a book of the year by the Independent and the Sunday Times.

His latest work is The Gold Eaters, a novel set during the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire. Born in England to British and Canadian parents, Wright lives on Canada's west coast.

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