Three Letters from the Andes

John Murray Press

Three Letters from the AndesAuthor(s): Patrick Leigh Fermor\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Murray Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd\nISBN-13: 9780719566851, 978-0719566851\nSynopsis\nIn 1971 the celebrated traveller Patrick Leigh Fermor accompanied five friends on a remarkable journey into the high Andes of Peru. His adventure took him from Cuzco to Urubamba, on to Puno and Juli on Lake Titicaca, down to Arequipa and finally back to Lima.\n\nThe expedition was led by a writer and poet and the party included a Swiss international skier and jeweller, a social anthropologist from Provence and a Nottinghamshire farming squire - all seasoned mountaineers. The other two participants - the author himself and a botany-loving duke - were complete novices. As the group travelled from Lima into increasingly remote parts of the country, Leigh Fermor captured their experiences in a series of letters to his wife.\n\nWhether recounting the thrill of crossing a glacier,.