Cut Stones and Crossroads
- Publisher
- Penguin Group Canada
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2009
- Category
- Peru, Reference, Americas
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780143169680
- Publish Date
- Mar 2009
- List Price
- $18.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780141000268
- Publish Date
- Jun 2001
- List Price
- $19.99
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Description
Traveling through Peru, tracing the history of the Incas from their royal cities of Cusco and Machu Picchu to their mythic origin in Lake Titicaca, Ronald Wright explores a country of contrasts—between Spanish and Indian, past and present, coastal desert and mountainous interior.
In his highly entertaining and perceptive account, Wright brings to life a complex culture, a land of ancient traditions seeking its place in the modern world. Embracing history, politics, anthropology, and literature, Cut Stones and Crossroadsis a fascinating travel memoir and the study of a civilization by a writer who has won international awards as both a novelist and a historian.
About the author
RONALD WRIGHT is an award-winning historian, essayist, and the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction published in sixteen languages and more than forty countries. His 2004 CBC Massey Lectures, A Short History of Progress, was a #1 national bestseller, won the Libris Award for Nonfiction Book of the Year, and was the basis for the Martin Scorsese–produced documentary Surviving Progress. His other bestselling nonfiction books include the BC Book Prize–winning history What Is America?; Stolen Continents, which won the Gordon Montador Award; and Among the Maya. His first novel, A Scientific Romance, won the 1997 David Higham Prize for Fiction and was a Globe and Mail, Sunday Times, and New York Times book of the year. Wright contributes criticism to the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other publications. He lives in British Columbia.
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A Short History of Progress
Fifteenth Anniversary Edition
The Gold Eaters
A Novel
Modern Classics Cut Stones and Crossroads
A Journey in the Two Worlds of Peru
Stolen Continents
Conquest and Resistance in the Americas
What Is America?
A Short History of the New World Order
An Illustrated Short History of Progress
Henderson's Spear
A Scientific Romance
A Novel
Home and Away
Time Among The Maya
Travels in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico