Title Life and death in the Andes : on the trail of bandits, heroes, and revolutionaries / Kim MacQuarrie.

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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.

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Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department	980 MACQUARRIE	Check Shelf
Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction	980 MACQUARRIE	Check Shelf
Canton Public Library - Adult Department	980 MACQUARRIE	Check Shelf
Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department	980 MAC	Check Shelf
Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction	980 MAC	Missing
Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department	980.223 MA	Check Shelf

Edition	First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description	xx, 427 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), photographs, portraits ; 24 cm
Summary	"Kim MacQuarrie tells great stories of South America's history, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to the last survivor of an Indian tribe, all of these stories set in the Andes Mountains"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-398) and index.
Contents	Chapters & Countries Where Stories Take Place -- 1. The Hunt for Pablo Escobar and the Search For El Dorado (Colombia) -- 2. Evolution & Denial in the Galapagos (Ecuador) -- 3. Death in the Andes : The Capture of Peru's Shining Path Leader, Abimael Guzman (Peru) -- 4. The Rise & Fall of Hiram Bingham, Controversial Discoverer of Machu Picchu (Peru) -- 5. Ice Maidens, Volcanoes & Incas (Peru) -- 6. The Kon Tiki Voyage, White Gods, and the Floating Islands of Titicaca Lake (Peru & Bolivia) -- 7. The End of Che Guevara (Bolivia) -- 8. The Final Days of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (Bolivia) -- 9. Darwin, the Last Yámana, and the Uttermost Part of the Earth (Chile & Argentina).
Subject	Andes Region -- History.
	Andes Region -- Biography.
	Andes Region -- Description and travel.
	Andes Region -- Social conditions.
	Outlaws -- Andes Region -- Biography.
	Heroes -- Andes Region -- Biography.
	Revolutionaries -- Andes Region -- Biography.
	Death -- Andes Region -- History.
	Death. (OCoLC)fst00888613
	Heroes. (OCoLC)fst00955558
	Outlaws. (OCoLC)fst01049233
	Revolutionaries. (OCoLC)fst01096578
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
	Andes Region. (OCoLC)fst01241744
	HISTORY / Latin America / South America.
	TRAVEL / South America / General.
	HISTORY / Modern / General.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9781439168899 (hardback)
	143916889X (hardback)
	9781439168929 (ebook)

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