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1 comments about Peru Adventure Guide (Adventure Guides Series).

1. The newest addition to the acclaimed 'Hunter Travel Guides' series from Hunter Publishing, "Adventure Guide: Peru"is a profusely illustrated, compact, 'traveler friendly', 584-page carry-along guide for anyone traveling anywhere in Peru and enjoying the best of Peru's amenities, sights, restaurants, hotels, festivals, and attractions. "Adventure Guide: Peru" provides an informed and informative introduction to Peru's history, culture, and basic travel information; what to see and do in the Peruvian capital city of Lima; the sights and resources when traveling along Peru's Southern Coast, Central Highlands, Cuzco and the Sacred Valley, Cordillera Blanca, Northern Highlands, the North Coast, the Amazon, and the Southeastern Jungle/Madre de Dios. Enhanced with maps and practical information on transportation, "Adventure Guide: Peru" is the ideal guidebook for planning and enjoying a visit to Peru whether for business or vacation.

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1 comments about The Second Part of the Chronicle of Peru.

1. The service and the packaging was wonderful. The price of the book was too expensive for the information you get. The topic of the Incas as always is very interesting msterial to read.
   Thanks, I do enjoy learning as much about this wonderful culture! they were great!!

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5 comments about Valverde's Gold: In Search of the Last Great Inca Treasure.

1. First and foremost, this book is more of a literary and investigative adventure. It's not until the last chapter that the author actually details his own physical search for the fabled treasure in Ecuador of the Incan King Atahualpa. A treasure that by all accounts over the last 500 years may be the most valuable land cache of gold and other precious objects on earth. It provides interesting and entertaining background on the other treasure hunters and explorers who went before him on the search. This leads the reader through labrynthine twists of misinformation, questionable documents/maps and several "characters" the author encounters who come across as gold-crazed swashbucklers. The book is definitely well-researched, but I expected something more along the lines of an Indiana Jones type of real-life adventure and came away with something more along the lines of a day spent in a musty-smelling library....



2. this is perhaps the most disappointing book i have read in years. i have always loved treasuer hunts but this is just a terrible account of one. the author lays out the basics about the capture of the inca king and all that, but then it disloves into loose ends. he hunts down various people who have information and maps but he seems to alienate them so quickly that he fails to get any helpful data and most of them will speak to him again. further he goes on a trek with a drunk and comes back more than empty handed. a terrible book and a total waste of time and money. wait for the movie "how not to find a treasure for dummies". dgs



3. This book is pretty disappointing. Whilst treasure hunts are inherently interesting (and this one is the biggest of them all), following Honigsbaum is more often than not utterly boring. In each chapter his quest for the lost Incan treasure diverges into a new dead-end avenue, and his research is so hodge-podge that it is difficult to follow.
   
   Much of his prose is boring and ought to have been cut short. For instance, he spends a chapter detailing his study of old Spanish documents in Seville, despite the fact that he finds absolutely nothing of import. Historical research is not exactly something one needs to read about in detail. His prose reads something like, "And suddenly, I put a new search term in the computer! I waited, as the hourglass turned on screen for what seemed an eternity. Then, just as I thought I was about to find the key document, my search came back! 'No Documents Found,' it said." He might then look over an unrelated document, and spend a page talking about a story that has no bearing on the treasure or anything to do with it; it just seems to fill up space in the book.
   
   Overall, the author seems out to intrigue his audience enough to buy the book, but that's the extent of his effort. It's like a bad movie in which the preview only shows scenes with pretty girls and cars blowing up. Suck the audience in, because once you've got their money, what do you care? As I labored to get through Valverde's Gold, all I could think was, "I know exactly how this ends... I mean, if he found the treasure, would he really have written this awful book?"



4. I must agree with another reviewer... all that is required of this book is the first and last chapters.
   Instead of high-level adventure or life threatening exploits into the mysterious, the reader is best to settle for historical research of past attempts to locate Ecuador's legendary Inca treasure. No Indiana Jones script here.
   
   With such an entanglement of characters past and present, along with weak geographical perceptibility due to a map which is certainly difficult to interpret, the discourse turns into muddle.
   
   The subject at hand is simply overdone to the point of exhaustion.



5. Nothing I've read in the last several years has got my imagination churning like this book. To me the dead-ends, the chaotic assortment of characters, and even the dull frustrations of this real-life treasure hunt make this an endlessly fascinating book.
   
   I stumbled across, purchased, and read this book before reading anything about it here on Amazon, and after I was finished I was shocked to see that it had received such varied and poor reviews. It's not a fictional thriller. I can understand how some readers might be disappointed if they pick it up expecting an action-packed adventure with a climatic conclusion.
   
   I really enjoy good fictional thrillers too, especially those that use historical facts as a foundation or a jumping off point, but I have returned to Valverde's Gold several times as an engaging alternative that in many ways is more satisfying than a novel. It quickly pulls you into a real, vivid world of remote Ecuadorian landscapes, history (spanning four centuries), eccentric individuals, lost documents and hidden treasure. I highly recommend this book.

1 comments about South America Ski Guide.

1. I was lucky enough to cross paths with Chris at Villarrica-Pucon. He is an excellent skier and knows what he is doing in the backcountry. His guide covers everything from trail and hotel descriptions to detailed instructions for backcountry excursions at every area. Skiers and snowboarders of every ability and budget will find this guide useful. I found his guide indispensable during my ski trips in Chile and Argentina

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