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

A collection of essays, folklore, historical documents, poetry, songs, short stories, autobiographical accounts and photographs.

Covering more than 500 years of history, culture, and politics, The Lima Reader seeks to capture the many worlds and many peoples of Peru’s capital city, feat

The author takes the reader on a journey back from the world of the Incas to the first dawn of Andean civilization.

First published in Peru in 1990, The Shining Path was immediately hailed as one of the finest works on the insurgency that plagued that nation for over fifteen