Cut Stones and Crossroads - Ronald Wright
Cut Stones and Crossroads - Ronald Wright
A Journey in the Two Worlds of Peru
With an introduction from Alberto Manguel
Travelling 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 land of contrasts – between Indian and Spanish, past and present, coastal desert and snow- crowned Andes.
Yet Wright is equally interested in the chance encounters of the road. With admiration, humour and a wry anger, he brings to life the complex culture of an ancient land seeking its place in the modern world.
Eland also publish Time Among the Maya and On Fiji Islands by Ronald Wright.
‘Ronald Wright is a superb travel writer with a vivid historical imagination. The soundness and range of Wright’s knowledge … weaves a fascinating though melancholy tapestry. Extraordinarily perceptive.’ Dervla Murphy, TLS
‘the best modern travel book on Peru that I know.’ John Hemming
Cut Stones and Crossroads: A Journey in the Two Worlds of Peru
ISBN: 978-1-78060-157-1
Format: 304pp demi pb
Place: Peru
Author Biography
Ronald Wright is the author of ten books of fiction, history, essays and travel published in eighteen languages and more than forty countries. His first novel, A Scientific Romance, won Britain’s David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen as a book of the year by the Sunday Times and the New York Times. Wright’s CBC Massey Lectures, A Short History of Progress, won the Libris Award for Nonfiction Book of the Year and inspired Martin Scorsese’s 2011 documentary film Surviving Progress. His other bestsellers include Time Among the Maya and Stolen Continents, chosen as a book of the year by the Independent and the Sunday Times. His latest work is The Gold Eaters, a novel set during the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire. Born in England to British and Canadian parents, Wright lives on Canada’s west coast.