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Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries Audiobook
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The Andes Mountains are the world’s longest mountain chain, linking most of the countries in South America. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and author 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. He introduces us to a Patagonian woman who is the last living speaker of her language, as he explores the disappearance and sometimes surprising resiliency of indigenous cultures throughout the Andes. He meets a man whose grandfather witnessed Butch Cassidy’s last days in Bolivia and tracks down the ballet dancer who once hid the leader of the brutal Shining Path in her home. 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? What makes South America different from other continents-and what makes the cultures of the Andes different from other cultures in South America? Deeply observed and beautifully written, Life and Death in the Andes shows us this land as no one has before.
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"A thoughtfully observed travel memoir and history."
— Kirkus
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" Interesting collections of reports from a part of the world the author seems to have a lot of love for. Having just completed his excellent Last Days of the Incas, thought I’d give this one a try. Containing a entertaining collection of stories of various times, places, characters and spaces loosely connected by regions of the Andes including Peru, Argentina and Bolivia. Each story focuses on a different personality or group, from Pablo Escobar to Che Guevara and The Shinning Path to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Macquarie writes about what he wants to write about, writes well and is a good storyteller. One can’t help but wish the author had tried his hand at using most of this material by turning it into a novel. A missed opportunity. A fun but not an essential read. "
— A, 7/1/2022
About Kim MacQuarrie
Kim MacQuarrie is a writer, a four-time Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, and an anthropologist. He is the author of four books on Peru and lived in that country for five years. During that time, MacQuarrie lived with a recently contacted tribe of indigenous Amazonians, called the Yora. It was MacQuarrie’s experience filming a nearby group of indigenous people, whose ancestors still remembered their contacts with the Inca Empire, that ultimately led him to investigate and then to write his latest book, The Last Days of the Incas. Currently FX Channel is developing The Last Days of the Incas as a thirteen-part scripted television series. MacQuarrie is now at work on a book about a 4,500-mile journey from Colombia to Tierra del Fuego along the spine of the Andes.
About Jonathan Yen
Jonathan Yen is a commercial voice-over artist and Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator. He was inspired by the Golden Age of Radio, and while the gold was gone by the time he got there, he has carried that inspiration through to commercial work, voice acting, and stage productions. From vintage Howard Fast science fiction to naturalist Paul Rosolie’s true adventures in the Amazon, he loves to tell a good story.