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Featured Categories : Travel & Holiday : Countries & Regions : Central & South America : Peru

• Peru (Lonely Planet Country Guide)

  Sara Benson, Paul Hellander, Rafael Wlodarski

  
  
   

• Inca Kola: A Traveller's Tale of Peru

  Matthew Parris

  
  
   

• The Rough Guide to Peru (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

  Dilwyn Jenkins

  
  
   

• The Inca Trail Cusco and Machu Picchu (Inca Trail, Cusco & Machu Picchu: Includes Santa Teresa Trek,)

  Richard Danbury, Alexander Stewart

  
  
   

• Explore the Inca Trail (Rucksack Readers)

  Jacquetta Megarry, Roy Davies

  
  
   

• Cochineal Red: Travels Through Ancient Peru

  Hugh Thomson

  
  
   

• Rescuing the Spectacled Bear

  Stephen Fry

  
  There are those who have accused Stephen Fry of spreading his many talents too thinly. Rescuing the Spectacled Bear reminds us that it's possible to argue that he's at his best as a writer. It's a funny and moving diary of his bid to rescue Peru's endangered Spectacled Bears and altogether a delight. Earlier in 2002, BBC 1 broadcast a programme about Fry's visit to Peru to track Paddington Bear's roots and (more seriously) to rescue a Spectacled Bear, one of the world's endangered species. Later, Fry and his team went back and helped rescue a mate for the bear they had found on their first trip. Fry is clearly keen to draw the world's attention to these bears and this engaging diary of his time in Peru is both funny and committed. Will Fry become the Diane Fossey of the bear world?

  The full colour, full-page illustrations are a particular delight and perfectly complement the author's whimsical word pictures of the Spectacled Bears. And there's even a bonus in the shape of some very funny jacket notes, comparing (item by item) the Spectacled Bear and Stephen Fry in terms of size, appearance and habitat, not to mention sexual habits. Of the bears: "Mating occurs in April, May and June and couples stay together for a week or two, with copulation occurring numerous times." Of Stephen Fry: "Subject of much speculation among scholars and gossip mongers. The mating ritual, which is remarkably noisy, lasts fourteen and a half years and makes a great deal of mess." --Barry Forshaw

  
   

• Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule in Unknown Peru

  Dervla Murphy

  
  
   

• The Rough Guide Map Peru (Rough Guide Map)

  Reise Know-How Verlag

  
  
   

• The Rough Guide to Peru (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

  Dilwyn Jenkins

  
  
   

• Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador (Footprint Handbooks)

  Ben Box, Robert Kunstaetter, Daisy Kunstaetter, Geoff Groesbeck

  
  
   

• Peru Insight Flexi Map

  Corporation American Map

  
  
   

• The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Incas: The History, Legends, Myths and Culture of the Ancient Native Peoples of the Andes, with Over 500 Photographs, Maps, Artworks and Fine Art Images

  David M. Jones

  
  
   

• Peru and Ecuador Nelles Map (Nelles Maps)

  
  
   

• Lonely Planet Peru

  Sara Benson, Paul Hellander

  
  
   

• Peru (Wide Angle Books)

  Mario Polia

  
  
   

• The Linger Loco!: In Search of the Real Carnival (Argentina, Chile, Peru, Brazil)

  Simon Raven, Chris Raven

  
  
   

• Touching the Void

  Joe Simpson

  
  
   

• Trail of Feathers

  Tahir Shah

  
  With its rich pre-Hispanic heritage, the Andes and the Amazon, recent years have seen Perú welcoming more than its fair share of adventure tourists. Trial of Feathers tells of Tahir Shah's intriguing journey to uncover what lies behind the remarkable "birdmen" legends--from textiles of ancient cultures from Perú's Atacama Desert showing flying men; and accounts of a 16th-century Spanish monk who stated that indigenous people were able to fly. Travelling in areas overrun by tourists, and then into remote parts of the Amazon, Shah book throws up an unexpectedly powerful mystical heart even in the midst of what is now a familiar country. The climax and focal point is Shah's journey up a remote tributary of the Amazon in search of the Shuar people, who are believed to be descendants of the Atacameño peoples who gave rise to the legends.

  No stranger to the magic of distant countries--his previous book, Sorcerer's Apprentice, confronted the magicians of India--Shah's own "flight" leads him to persuasive explanations of both the legends of aviation and of Perú's most mysterious phenomenon, the Nazca Lines. Both erudite and entertaining, Trail of Feathers is a timely book. In writing about secrets from an apparently well-worn destination, Shah restores something of the mystery of distant places in an age when it is possible to believe that most things are seen and known. --Toby Green

  
   

• Peru (Footprint Peru Handbook)

  Ben Box, Steve Frankham