Life and Death in the Andes by Kim MacQuarrie

During that time, MacQuarrie lived with a recently-contacted tribe of indigenous Amazonians, called the Yora. MacQuarrie is the author of four books on Peru and lived in that country for five years, exploring many of its hidden regions. He’s won multiple national Emmy awards for documentary films made in such disparate regions as Siberia, Papua New Guinea, and Peru.

Kim MacQuarrie is an award-winning author, a documentary filmmaker, and an anthropologist. Through the stories he shares, MacQuarrie raises such questions as, where did the people of South America come from? Did they create or import their cultures? Why did the Incas sacrifice children on mountaintops-and how did these “ice mummies” remain so well preserved? Why did Peru’s Shining Path leader Guzmán nearly succeed in his revolutionary quest while Che Guevara in Bolivia so quickly failed? And what so astounded Charles Darwin in South America that led him to conceive the theory evolution? Deeply observed and beautifully written, Adventures in the Andes shows us this land as no one has before. MacQuarrie also meets the Colombian police officer who made it his mission to capture Pablo Escobar-the most dangerous cocaine king in the world.

He meets a man whose grandfather witnessed Butch Cassidy’s last days in Bolivia and the school teacher who gave Che Guevara his final meal. He introduces us to a Patagonian woman who is the last living speaker of her language, as he explores the disappearance of indigenous cultures throughout the Andes. He describes living on the floating islands of Lake Titicaca, where people still make sacrifices to the gods. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Kim MacQuarrie takes us on a historical journey through this unique region, bringing fresh insight and contemporary connections to such fabled characters as Charles Darwin, Pablo Escobar, Che Guevara, and many others.

The Andes Mountains are the world’s longest mountain chain, linking most of the countries in South America. Unique portraits of legendary characters along South America’s mountain spine, from Charles Darwin to the present day, told by a master traveler and observer

Life and Death in the Andes by Kim MacQuarrie