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Sites with information
about Perú:
Reading Material
Related to Perú:
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Lonely Planet
Perú Travel
Survival Kit by Rob Rachowiecki.
4th Edition, 2000. 512 pages, 63 maps.
Lonely Planet (www.lonelyplanet.com)
ISBN 0864427107.
Lots of the usual nuts and bolts stuff.
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Footprint South
American Handbook 2004 by Ben Box. 79th Edition, 2000.
1680 pages.
Footprint Handbooks (UK and Worldwide, www.footprintbooks.com)
or Passport Books USA ISBN 1903471702.
The bible for South America, updated annually.
More factual details on nuts and bolts than Lonely Planet. Easist to
order from Amazone.com.
- Footprint Perú Handbook by
Ben Box & Alan Murphy. 4th Edition,
2003. 656 pages.
Footprint Books (www.footprintbooks.com)
ISBN 1903471516.
Expanded Perú info from Footprint. See above for info.
Heavier fare:
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The Conquest
of the Incas by John Hemming. Penguin 1983.
Good modern account of the fall of the Incan empire.
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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa.
A novel by Perú's greatest writer. Widely available
in bookstores and more readable than some of his lengthy,
complex, multilayered novels.
Web Sites (all in Spanish):
Further information
regarding logistics and registration can be obtained through the following:
- Phone: (in the
US) 800-UAB-MIST
- Phone: (from
overseas) +1-205-934-1630
- Fax: +1-205-934-5600
- E-mail: info@gorgas.org
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