![]() Many became famous for their exploits: Charles Darwin, for example, discovered fossilized seashells high up in the Patagonian Andes that led to the formulation of his theory of evolution, while Che Guevara attempted to lead a revolution in the Bolivian Andes that he hoped would begin to transform the whole of South America. In this book, MacQuarrie walks in the footsteps of men and women who followed their dreams into the very lands that he once dreamed about as a child. Though the tales themselves concerned an imaginary world at the center of the Earth, the images-of “half-naked tribes and powerful beasts… rich, luxuriant vegetation, beautiful women”-stayed with him and became the unconscious lodestar toward which he gravitated as an adult traveler. ![]() MacQuarrie’s ( The Last Days of the Incas, 2007, etc.) love affair with South America began during boyhood when he read the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs. ![]() ![]() A filmmaker and writer tells the story of the historical figures and ordinary people who have attempted to “control, adapt to, or explore” the largely wild and untamed Andes cordillera. ![]()
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