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THE NUTS AND BOLTS
Suggested Reading
Travel
Moon Peru
Wehner, Ross, Renee Del Gaudio and Kazia Jankowski, Avalon Travel Publishing, 2008.
Thoroughly researched and informative guide to all of Peru.
Footprint Peru
Box, Ben. Footprint Books, 2005.
A guidebook that gets straight to the point.
www.peru.info
Web page of Peru's tourism department. Gives good, basic information on Peruvian travel.
www.saexplorers.com
Web page of the South American Explorer's Club. This New York-based club knows the in's and out's of travel in Peru. Don't hesitate to be in touch directly.
www.rumbosperu.com
This website of a Peru-based travel magazine has an incredible list of links, which can take you to the pages of many of Peru's top tourist sites.
History and Culture
The Peru Reader
Starn, Orin, ed., Carlos Iván Degregori, and Rob Kirk. Duke University Press, 1995.
Fun collection of cultural essays, short stories, poems, and translated chapters of the Spanish chronicles.
Conquest of the Incas
Hemming, John. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1970.
John Hemming, an established Peruvian historian, gives a detailed account of the Spanish conquest of Peru.
Literature
Bel Canto
Pachett, Ann. Harper Perennial, 2002.
An award-winning novel that weaves together the events of an unexpected terrorism attack on a South American Embassy. The novel closely mirrors real events that occurred during Peru's terrorism era.
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Vargas Llosa, Mario. Penguin, 1995.
An imaginative novel, which details the romance between a young limeño - an aspiring writer - and his older, Bolivian aunt.