To Get Ready for Your Peru Journey…
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Mark Adams – Turn Right at Machu Picchu
Following the footsteps of Hiram Bingham, Mark Adams offers a journey with lots of information while maintaining a light and fun way of communicating with the reader,
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega – The Royal Commentaries of the Incas Vol. 1 & Vol.2
Considered the most important text from colonial Peru, Garcilaso de la Vega was a mestizo Peruvian born of a Spanish conquistador and an Inca noblewoman.
“This book is the account of the origin, growth, and destruction of the Inca empire, from its legendary birth until the death in 1572 of its last independent ruler. The author’s classic is a work of art. Its gracious and grateful style, skillfully translated by Harold V. Livermore, succeeds in bringing to life for the reader a genuine work of literature.”
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539 –1616) – The Royal Commentaries of the Incas (Abridged version)
Considered the most important text from colonial Peru, Garcilaso de la Vega was a mestizo Peruvian born of a Spanish conquistador and an Inca noblewoman.
Karina Pacheco – (Spanish Edition)
Karina is a good friend from Cusco. Her novels tell stories of fictitious characters set in real recent history.
These are her last two novels from 2017 and 2018.
Pablo Neruda – The Heights of Machu Picchu
Pablo Neruda’s hommage to Machu Picchu. Dual language version. Translation Nathaniel Tarn.
Pablo Neruda – The Heights of Machu Picchu
Pablo Neruda’s hommage to Machu Picchu. In English translation by Tomas Q. Morin.
Hiram Bingham – Lost City of the Incas (Phoenix Press)
The story of Hiram Bingham’s original expedition to Machu PIcchu.
John Hemming – The Conquest of the Incas
Thorough history of the fall of the inca empire. Very well researched.
The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)
Edited by Orin Starn, Carlos Iván Degregori, Robin Kirk
“Curated specifically to educate the reader in a wide range of topics, this hefty volume contains an eclectic mixture of history, philosophy, literature, poetry and more. Spanning the whole history of Peru from pre-Inca civilizations to the 21st century, this is probably the best English-language book available for getting an all-encompassing overview of the country.”
Kim MacQuarrie – The Last Days of the Incas
Tells the story of the Spanish conquest. Reads like a novel.
Joan Parisi Wilcox – Masters of the Living Energy: The Mystical World of the Q’ero of Peru
An excellent in depth introduction to the spirituality and cosmovision of the Q’ero culture. The Q’eros are said to be the keepers of the ancient knowledge and the bearers of the ancestral wisdom.